| calming | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: appeasement |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: cardinal |
| (verb) color carmine | - |
| catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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| catmint | (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: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charmingly | (adverb) in a charming manner | - |
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| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chloramine | (noun) any of several compounds containing chlorine and nitrogen; used as an antiseptic in wounds | Synonyms: chloramine-T |
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| chumminess | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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| clomipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug | - |
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| coaming | (noun) a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out | - |
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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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| coming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: climax, orgasm, sexual climax |
| (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: advent |
| (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
| comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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| commination | (noun) a threat of divine punishment or vengeance | - |
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| (noun) prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday | - |
| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| commingle | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) mix or blend | - |
| comminute | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash |
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| condominium | (noun) housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned | - |
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| (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condo |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| conforming | (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conformist |
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| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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| (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |
| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| contamination | (noun) the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | Synonyms: pollution |
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| (noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: taint |
| (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contaminant |
| contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| coterminously | (adverb) in a coterminous manner | - |
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| countermine | (noun) (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy | - |
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| (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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| criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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| (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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| criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminally | (adverb) in violation of the law; in a criminal manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a shameful manner | Synonyms: reprehensively |
| criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
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| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
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| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| culmination | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: climax |
| (noun) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | - |
| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: apogee |
| cumin | (noun) aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family | Synonyms: cumin seed |
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| (noun) dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds | Synonyms: Cuminum cyminum |
| cummings | (noun) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) | Synonyms: e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings |
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| cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| daminozide | (noun) a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time | Synonyms: Alar |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decontamination | (noun) the removal of contaminants | - |
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| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| denomination | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, designation |
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| (noun) a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith | - |
| (noun) a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money | - |
| denominational | (adjective) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination | - |
| (adjective) relating to the face value of a banknote, coin, or stamp | - |
| denominationalism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: sectarianism |
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| (noun) the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations | - |
| denominationally | (adverb) with respect to denomination | - |
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| denominator | (noun) the divisor of a fraction | - |
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| desipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system | - |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
| (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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| determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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| (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
| (noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determinedly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: unfalteringly, unshakably |
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| (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: ambitiously |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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| diamine | (noun) any organic compound containing two amino groups | - |
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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |