carbonation | (noun) saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water) | - |
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carbonisation | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonization |
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carbonization | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonisation |
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carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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(noun) a pink or reddish-pink color | - |
(noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower |
carrion | (noun) the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food | - |
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cartelization | (noun) the process of cartelizing, usually occuring in oligopolistic industry. | - |
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cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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(noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
castration | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: emasculation |
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(noun) surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) | - |
(noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: expurgation |
categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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cation | (noun) a positively charged ion | - |
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cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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causation | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causing |
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cauterisation | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterization, cautery |
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cauterization | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cautery |
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caution | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, cautiousness |
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(noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: circumspection |
(noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, forethought, precaution |
(noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caveat |
(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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(noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centrifugation | (noun) the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
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centurion | (noun) (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers | - |
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cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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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 |
cessation | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: surcease |
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cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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chalazion | (noun) a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked | Synonyms: Meibomian cyst |
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champion | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: prizewinning |
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(noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: fighter, hero, paladin |
(noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champ, title-holder |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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(noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
(noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
chelation | (noun) the process of forming a ring by forming one or more hydrogen bonds | - |
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(noun) (medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning | - |
chemisorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorption |
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chemosorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorption |
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chlorination | (noun) disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound | - |
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(noun) the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds | - |
chorion | (noun) the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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circulation | (noun) the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | - |
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(noun) the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) | - |
(noun) free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) | - |
(noun) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels | - |
(noun) number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold | - |
(noun) (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period | - |
circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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(noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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(noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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circumvolution | (noun) the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
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citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
(noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
(noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
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 |
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 |
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 |
clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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(noun) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone | - |
(verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
(verb) blow the clarion | - |
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 |
claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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coaction | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: collaboration |
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coagulation | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, curdling |
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coalition | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, concretion, conglutination |
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(noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, alliance |
(noun) the state of being combined into one body | Synonyms: fusion |
coarctation | (noun) (biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta | - |
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(noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: constriction |
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 |
coeducation | (noun) education of men and women in the same institutions | - |
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coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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coercion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: compulsion |
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(noun) the act of compelling by force of authority | - |
coextension | (noun) equality of extension or duration | - |
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cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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cohesion | (noun) (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid | - |
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(noun) (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) | - |
(noun) (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. | - |
(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness |
coition | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coitus, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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(noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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collation | (noun) careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement | - |
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(noun) assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence | - |
(noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, snack |
collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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(noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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colligation | (noun) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | - |
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(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: conjugation, conjunction, junction |
collimation | (noun) the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope | - |
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collision | (noun) a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals | - |
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(noun) an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object | - |
(noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: hit |
collocation | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition |
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(noun) a grouping of words in a sentence | - |
collodion | (noun) a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films | - |
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collusion | (noun) secret agreement | - |
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(noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: connivance |
colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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colonization | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, settlement |
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coloration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: colouration |
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(noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: colouration |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, colour, colouration |
colouration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: coloration |
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(noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: coloration |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colour |
columniation | (noun) (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure | - |
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combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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(noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
(noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
(noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
(noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
(noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
(noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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(noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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(noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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