| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
| ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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| ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| chemist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in chemistry | - |
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| (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
| chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
| (noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| christ | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: messiah |
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| christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| christless | (adjective) not believing in Christ | Synonyms: nonchristian |
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| christlike | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christly |
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| christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cistron | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: factor, gene |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| clarinetist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinettist |
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| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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| cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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| cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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| cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
| cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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| columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| conformist | (adjective) marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles | - |
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| (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conforming |
| (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) | - |
| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
| consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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| (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
| (noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
| (noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contrapuntist | (noun) a composer who specializes in counterpoint | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| copyist | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: scribe, scrivener |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
| cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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| cosmologist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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