| cockamamie | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamy |
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| cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| codified | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| collie | (noun) a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland | - |
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| collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| commie | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| congeries | (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, conglomeration |
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| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscientiously | (adverb) with extreme conscientiousness | Synonyms: religiously, scrupulously |
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| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
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| convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
| (noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
| (noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
| conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conveniently | (adverb) in a convenient manner | Synonyms: handily |
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| cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
| (noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
| coolie | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: cooly |
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| coontie | (noun) small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot | Synonyms: Florida arrowroot, Seminole bread, Zamia pumila |
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| cootie | (noun) a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings | Synonyms: body louse, Pediculus corporis |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| cordierite | (noun) a blue mineral of magnesium and iron and aluminum and silicon and oxygen; often used as a gemstone | - |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| coterie | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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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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| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| couthie | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthy |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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| cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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| crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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| (noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
| crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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| (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
| (noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
| crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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| dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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| dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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| deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
| deficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: insufficient |
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| (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: lacking, wanting |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: inferior, substandard |
| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| dickie | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dicky |
| die | (noun) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers | Synonyms: dice |
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| (noun) a device used for shaping metal | - |
| (noun) a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods | - |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) disappear or come to an end | - |
| (verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, pall |
| (verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player | - |
| (verb) cut or shape with a die | Synonyms: die out |
| (verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame | - |
| (verb) languish as with love or desire | - |
| (verb) feel indifferent towards | - |
| (verb) suffer or face the pain of death | - |
| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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| diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| diesis | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used | Synonyms: double dagger, double obelisk |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrum | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrus |
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| diestrus | (noun) (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity | Synonyms: diestrum |
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| diet | (noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) | Synonyms: dieting |
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| (noun) a prescribed selection of foods | - |
| (noun) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) | - |
| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) | - |
| (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
| dieter | (noun) a person who diets | - |
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| dietetic | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetical |
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| dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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| dietetics | (noun) the scientific study of food preparation and intake | - |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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