| captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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| cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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| catnip | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| 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 |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chip | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chipping, splintering |
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| (noun) (golf) a low running approach shot | Synonyms: chip shot |
| (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit | Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip |
| (noun) a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling | Synonyms: poker chip |
| (noun) a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line | - |
| (noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: check |
| (noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap |
| (noun) a piece of dried bovine dung | Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung |
| (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
| (verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
| (verb) form by chipping | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) play a chip shot | - |
| chipboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: hardboard |
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| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chipolata | (noun) a small thin sausage | - |
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| chipotle | (noun) a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking | - |
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| chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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| chipping | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, splintering |
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| chips | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries |
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| cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| ciprofloxacin | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints | Synonyms: Cipro |
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| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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| (noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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| (noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
| (noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
| (noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
| (verb) attach with a clip | - |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| clipboard | (noun) a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers | - |
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| clipped | (adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds | - |
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| (adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping | - |
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| clomiphene | (noun) a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births | Synonyms: Clomid, clomiphene citrate |
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| clomipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug | - |
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| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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| (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
| coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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| commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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| conniption | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: fit, scene, tantrum |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| constipated | (adjective) have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels | - |
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| constipation | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: deadening, impairment, stultification |
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| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: irregularity |
| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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| councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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| counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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| counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| decipherable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, readable |
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| decipherably | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: legibly, readably |
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| deciphered | (adjective) converted from cryptic to intelligible language | - |
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| decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
| decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| desipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system | - |
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| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| dip | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: drop, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a brief immersion | - |
| (noun) tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped | - |
| (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, pickpocket |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) a depression in an otherwise level surface | - |
| (verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | - |
| (verb) go down momentarily | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dunk |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | - |
| (verb) immerse in a disinfectant solution | - |
| (verb) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | - |
| (verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: douse, duck |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) slope downwards | - |
| (verb) lower briefly | - |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) take a small amount from | - |
| diphenhydramine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Benadryl |
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| diphenylhydantoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, phenytoin |
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| diphtheria | (noun) acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing | - |
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| diphthong | (noun) a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another | - |
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| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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| diplococcus | (noun) Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs | - |
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| diplodocus | (noun) a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America | - |
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| diploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number | - |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number | - |
| diploidy | (noun) the condition of being diploid | - |
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| diploma | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: sheepskin |
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| diplomacy | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, discreetness, finesse |
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| (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: statecraft, statesmanship |
| (noun) negotiation between nations | Synonyms: diplomatic negotiations |
| diplomat | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomatist |
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| (noun) a person who deals tactfully with others | - |
| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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