clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
clannishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: cliquishly |
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clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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clap | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, eruption |
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(noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clack |
(noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea |
(verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
(verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
(verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
(verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
(verb) strike the air in flight | - |
(verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
clapboard | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: weatherboard, weatherboarding |
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(verb) cover with clapboards | - |
clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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(noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
(noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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(verb) claw with the nails | - |
clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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clapping | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: applause, hand clapping |
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claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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claque | (noun) a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance | - |
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clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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(noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
(verb) drink claret | - |
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 |
clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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clarinet | (noun) a single-reed instrument with a straight tube | - |
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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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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 | - |
clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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(noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
(noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
(noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
(verb) disagree violently | - |
(verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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clasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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(noun) a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together | - |
(verb) hold firmly and tightly | - |
(verb) grasp firmly | - |
(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: buckle |
(verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: brooch |
class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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(noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
(noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
(noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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(adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
(adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
(noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
(noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
(adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
(adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
(noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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classically | (adverb) in the manner of Greek and Roman culture | - |
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classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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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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classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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classics | (noun) study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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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 |
classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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(adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
(noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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(noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
(noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
(verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
classless | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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clast | (noun) (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | - |
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clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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clausal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a clause | - |
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clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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(noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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(adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
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claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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(noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
clavus | (noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: corn |
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claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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(noun) a bird's foot | - |
(noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
(noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
(verb) attack as if with claws | - |
(verb) scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails | - |
(verb) clutch as if in panic | - |
(verb) move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging | - |
clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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clawed | (adjective) (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons | Synonyms: taloned |
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(adjective) having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form | - |
clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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claxon | (noun) a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles | Synonyms: klaxon |
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(verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: honk |
(verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, honk, toot |
clay | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff |
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(noun) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired | - |
(noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth | Synonyms: mud |
clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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(adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
clayeyness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
clayiness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
clayishness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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(noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
claystone | (noun) fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
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clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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coagulable | (adjective) capable of coagulating and becoming thick | - |
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coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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coagulase | (noun) an enzyme that induces coagulation | - |
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coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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(verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
(verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
coagulated | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: solidified |
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(adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, curdled, grumose, grumous |
coagulation | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, curdling |
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coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
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coastland | (noun) land in a coastal area | - |
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cobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cyanocobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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cocarboxylase | (noun) a coenzyme important in respiration in the Krebs cycle | Synonyms: thiamine pyrophosphate |
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coelacanth | (noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | Synonyms: Latimeria chalumnae |
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cola | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: dope |
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colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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(verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
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 |