calcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification | - |
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calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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(noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
(noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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caprifig | (noun) wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs | Synonyms: Ficus carica sylvestris |
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cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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catfish | (noun) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | Synonyms: siluriform fish |
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(noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish |
(noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: mudcat |
(verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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certifiable | (adjective) capable of being guaranteed or certified | - |
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(adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certified |
certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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(noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
(verb) authorize by certificate | - |
(verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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(noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
(noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
(noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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certified | (adjective) endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements | - |
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(adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certifiable |
(adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: qualified |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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(noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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citified | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: city-born, city-bred, cityfied |
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cityfied | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: citified, city-born, city-bred |
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clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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(noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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(adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
(noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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(noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
(noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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codfish | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: cod |
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(noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: cod |
codification | (noun) the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order | - |
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(noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: code |
codified | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute |
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coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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coffin | (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: casket |
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(verb) place into a coffin | - |
comfit | (noun) candy containing a fruit or nut | - |
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(verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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conchfish | (noun) found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch | Synonyms: Astropogon stellatus |
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confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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confidante | (noun) a female confidant | - |
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confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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(verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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(noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
(noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
(noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
(noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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(adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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(adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
(adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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(noun) the state of being secret | - |
confidentially | (adverb) in a confidential manner | - |
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confidently | (adverb) with confidence; in a confident manner | - |
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confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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confidingly | (adverb) with trust; in a trusting manner | Synonyms: trustfully, trustingly |
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configuration | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: conformation, contour, form, shape |
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(noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: constellation |
configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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configured | (adjective) organized so as to give configuration to | - |
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confine | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: constrain, hold, restrain |
(verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed | - |
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: detain |
(verb) close in | Synonyms: enclose, hold in |
confined | (adjective) not free to move about | - |
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(adjective) not invading healthy tissue | - |
(adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed |
confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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(noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the state of being confined | - |
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
confines | (noun) a bounded scope | - |
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confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
(verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
(verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
(verb) support a person for a position | - |
confirmable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: falsifiable, verifiable |
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confirmation | (noun) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | - |
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(noun) a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | - |
(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification |
(noun) information that confirms or verifies | - |
(noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: ratification |
confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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confirmed | (adjective) having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation | - |
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(adjective) of persons; not subject to change | - |
confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
confiscation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: arrogation |
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confit | (noun) a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat | - |
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confiture | (noun) preserved or candied fruit | - |
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conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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(noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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cowfish | (noun) trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes | Synonyms: Lactophrys quadricornis |
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crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
(verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
(noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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(noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
crucifix | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally | - |
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(noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: rood-tree, rood |
crucifixion | (noun) the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross | - |
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(noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: excruciation |
cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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