| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| compatible | (adjective) able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification | - |
| (adjective) capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction | - |
| compatibly | (adverb) with compatibility | - |
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| comprehendible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehensible |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehensible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehendible |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressible | (adjective) capable of being compressed or made more compact | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being easily compressed | Synonyms: squeezable |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptibly | (adverb) in a manner deserving contempt | - |
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| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| copaiba | (noun) an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments | Synonyms: balsam capivi, copaiba balsam |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| credibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, plausibly, probably |
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| crib | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: cribbage |
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| (noun) the cards discarded by players at cribbage | - |
| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats | Synonyms: cot |
| (noun) a bin or granary for storing grains | - |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: pony, trot |
| (verb) line with beams or planks | - |
| (verb) take unauthorized (intellectual material) | - |
| (verb) use a crib, as in an exam | - |
| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| crucible | (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | Synonyms: melting pot |
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| deciban | (noun) a unit of information, one tenth of a ban. | - |
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| decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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| deducible | (adjective) capable of being deduced | - |
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| deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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| (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| defeasible | (adjective) capable of being annulled or voided or terminated | - |
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| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| defensible | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defendable |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| deliberately | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: measuredly |
| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| delible | (adjective) capable of being deleted | - |
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| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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| dibble | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibber |
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| (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| dibbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dybbuk |
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| dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
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| dibranch | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dibs | (noun) a claim of rights | - |
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| dibucaine | (noun) a local anesthetic that is administered by injection | - |
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| digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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| digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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| digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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| dirigible | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: steerable |
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| (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
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| dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
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| distensible | (adjective) capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand | - |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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| (adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
| distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
| (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
| divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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| divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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| edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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