collegial | (adjective) characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues | - |
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(adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegiate |
colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colloquially | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: conversationally, informally |
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colonial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony | - |
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(adjective) of animals who live in colonies, such as ants | - |
(adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: compound |
(noun) a resident of a colony | - |
colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
commercial | (adjective) connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to commercialism | - |
(adjective) of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior | Synonyms: commercial-grade |
(adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking |
(noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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(verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
commercialized | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialised |
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commercially | (adverb) in a commercial manner | - |
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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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congenial | (adjective) suitable to your needs | - |
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(adjective) (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted | - |
congeniality | (noun) a congenial disposition | - |
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(noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congenialness |
congenially | (adverb) in a congenial manner | - |
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congenialness | (noun) compatibility between persons | Synonyms: congeniality |
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connubial | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: conjugal |
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(adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: conjugally |
consequential | (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: eventful |
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consequentially | (adverb) having the result that | - |
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conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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(noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
convivially | (adverb) in a convivial manner | - |
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cordial | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, genial |
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(adjective) politely warm and friendly | - |
(adjective) sincerely or intensely felt | - |
(noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: liqueur |
cordiality | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: amity |
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cordially | (adverb) in a hearty manner | Synonyms: heartily, warmly |
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coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
(adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
cruciality | (noun) a state of critical urgency | Synonyms: criticality, criticalness |
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crucially | (adverb) to a crucial degree | - |
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curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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deferentially | (adverb) in a respectfully deferential manner | - |
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(adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: submissively |
delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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dematerialize | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialise |
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denial | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer |
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(noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
(noun) the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | - |
(noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: disaffirmation |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | - |
dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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(noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
(noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
(noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
(verb) choose by means of a dial | - |
(verb) operate a dial to select a telephone number | - |
dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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(noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
(noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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dialectically | (adverb) in a dialectic manner | - |
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dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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dialysis | (noun) separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
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dialyze | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyse |
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dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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(adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
(noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
(noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
differentially | (adverb) in a differential manner | - |
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diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
(noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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editorially | (adverb) by means of an editorial | - |
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endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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endothelial | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the endothelium | - |
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entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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(adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
eparchial | (adjective) of or relating to an eparchy | - |
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epiphysial | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphyseal |
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epithelial | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelioid |
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equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
(noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
equinoctial | (adjective) relating to an equinox (when the lengths of night and day are equal) | - |
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(adjective) relating to the vicinity of the equator | - |
(noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles | Synonyms: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line |
especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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especially | (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: particularly, peculiarly, specially |
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(adverb) in a special manner | Synonyms: specially |
espial | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, detection, spotting, spying |
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essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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(adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
(adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
(adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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essentially | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, fundamentally |
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