| chiliasm | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| chill | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: gelidity, iciness |
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| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: pall |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: shivering |
| (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) depress or discourage | - |
| chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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| chilli | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilly |
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| chilliness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: coolness, nip |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
| chilly | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: parky |
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| (adjective) not characterized by emotion | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth of feeling | - |
| (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
| chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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| (noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
| (noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chintzily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, stingily |
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| chirpily | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: buoyantly |
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| chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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| cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| cilial | (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: ciliary, ciliate |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
| (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
| (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran |
| ciliated | (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliate |
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| ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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| cilium | (noun) a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms | - |
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| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: eyelash, lash |
| cinquefoil | (noun) an ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties | Synonyms: five-finger |
| civil | (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: polite |
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| (adjective) (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civic |
| (adjective) of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state | - |
| (adjective) applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military | - |
| (adjective) of or in a condition of social order | - |
| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| civilisation | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilization, refinement |
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| (noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilization |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilization, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilization |
| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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| (noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
| civilization | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, refinement |
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| (noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilisation |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilisation |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilized | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilised |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civilly | (adverb) in a civil manner | - |
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| clammily | (adverb) in a clammy manner | - |
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| 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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| clumsily | (adverb) in a clumsy manner | - |
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| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| coattail | (noun) the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
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| coccobacillus | (noun) a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus | - |
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| cocktail | (noun) a short mixed drink | - |
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| (noun) an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
| codicil | (noun) a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
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| coil | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: helix, spiral, volute, whorl |
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| (noun) reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit | - |
| (noun) tubing that is wound in a spiral | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb | - |
| (noun) a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine | - |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| coiled | (adjective) curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) | - |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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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 | - |
| compilation | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compiling |
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| (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: digest |
| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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| (noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compulsorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: mandatorily, obligatorily |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conciliable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: appeasable |
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| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| conciliation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: placation, propitiation |
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| (noun) any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration | - |
| (noun) the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled | - |
| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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| contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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| contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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| contrarily | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrariwise, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrariwise, perversely |
| 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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| copilot | (noun) a relief pilot on an airplane | Synonyms: co-pilot |
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| coquille | (noun) a dish in the form of a scallop shell | - |
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| (noun) seafood served in a scallop shell | - |
| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| coronilla | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels | - |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| cosily | (adverb) in a cozy manner | Synonyms: cozily |
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| cotilion | (noun) a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century | Synonyms: cotillion |
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| (noun) a ball at which young ladies are presented to society | Synonyms: cotillion |
| cotillion | (noun) a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century | Synonyms: cotilion |
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| (noun) a ball at which young ladies are presented to society | Synonyms: cotilion |
| cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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| council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
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| (noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| cozily | (adverb) in a cozy manner | Synonyms: cosily |
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| craftily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| crazily | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: dementedly, insanely, madly |
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| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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