| cobaltite | (noun) a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt | - |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
| (noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| conceitedly | (adverb) with conceit; in a conceited manner | Synonyms: self-conceitedly |
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| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| contritely | (adverb) in a rueful manner | Synonyms: remorsefully, ruefully |
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| contriteness | (noun) sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation | Synonyms: attrition, contrition |
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| copalite | (noun) partly mineralized copal dug from the ground | Synonyms: copaline, fossil copal |
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| coprolite | (noun) fossil excrement; petrified dung | - |
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| copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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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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| cordite | (noun) explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords | - |
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| cosmopolite | (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolitan |
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| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterion | (noun) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged | Synonyms: standard |
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| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: measure, standard, touchstone |
| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| criterium | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: crit |
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| crocolite | (noun) a rare lead chromite mineral that forms bright orange crystals | - |
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| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| cryolite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine | Synonyms: Greenland spar |
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| crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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| cuprite | (noun) a mineral consisting of cuprous oxide that is a source of copper | - |
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| cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| cytoarchitecture | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonics |
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| dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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| damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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| decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| deciliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: decilitre, dl |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| definitely | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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| delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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| dendrite | (noun) short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron | - |
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| despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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| diatomite | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr |
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| diorite | (noun) a granular crystalline intrusive rock | - |
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| discomfited | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: defeated |
| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| dispiritedly | (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: hopelessly |
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| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| dolomite | (noun) a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate | - |
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| (noun) a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer | Synonyms: bitter spar |
| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| dynamite | (noun) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | - |
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| (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
| dynamiter | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamitist |
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| ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| edited | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: emended |
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| egalite | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egality |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |
| endoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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| entoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entozoan, entozoon |
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| eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| eruditely | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: learnedly |
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| eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erythrite | (noun) a reddish mineral consisting of hydrated cobalt arsenate in monoclinic crystalline form and used in coloring glass; usually found in veins bearing cobalt and arsenic | Synonyms: cobalt bloom |
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| essonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, hessonite |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| excited | (adjective) in an aroused state | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: activated |
| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| excitedly | (adverb) with excitement; in an excited manner | - |
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| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| exploited | (adjective) developed or used to greatest advantage | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised, victimized |
| exploiter | (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: user |
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| exquisite | (adjective) of extreme beauty | - |
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| (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: dainty |
| (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: recherche |
| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: keen |
| exquisitely | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: delicately, fine, finely |
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| exquisiteness | (noun) extreme beauty of a delicate sort | - |
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| extradite | (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, deport |
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| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
| (noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
| (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
| fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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| ferrite | (noun) a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent | - |
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| (noun) a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: alpha-Fe, alpha-ferrite |
| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| finitely | (adverb) with a finite limit | - |
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| finiteness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finitude |
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| fluorapatite | (noun) a form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine | - |
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| fluorite | (noun) a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar |
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| fomite | (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: vehicle |
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| forfeited | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: confiscate, forfeit |
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| frostbite | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: cryopathy |
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