| chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
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| (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
| chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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| chamosite | (noun) a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum | - |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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| chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemoreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
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| chemosis | (noun) edema of the mucous membrane of the eyeball and eyelid lining | - |
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| chemosorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorption |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| chemosynthesis | (noun) synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water; limited to certain bacteria and fungi | - |
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| chemotaxis | (noun) movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chemotherapy | (noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness) | - |
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| cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| chromoblastomycosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin | - |
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| chromogen | (noun) a compound that can be converted to a pigment | - |
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| chromolithograph | (noun) a print made by chromolithography. | - |
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| chromolithography | (noun) single- or multi-color lithography | - |
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| chromophore | (noun) the chemical group that gives color to a molecule | - |
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| chromoplast | (noun) plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids | - |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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| chromosphere | (noun) a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun | - |
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| chymosin | (noun) an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate | Synonyms: rennin |
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| cinnamon | (noun) spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground | - |
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| (noun) tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon | Synonyms: Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum |
| (noun) aromatic bark used as a spice | Synonyms: cinnamon bark |
| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din |
| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clamorously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: loudly, obstreperously |
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| clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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| 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 | - |
| cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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| closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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| (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
| commode | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: chiffonier |
| commodious | (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: convenient |
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| commodiousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| commodore | (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral | - |
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| common | (adjective) having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public | - |
| (adjective) commonly encountered | Synonyms: usual |
| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: coarse |
| (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar |
| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar |
| (adjective) to be expected; standard | - |
| (adjective) common to or shared by two or more parties | Synonyms: mutual |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: commons, green, park |
| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| commonly | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: normally, ordinarily, unremarkably, usually |
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| commonness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonplaceness, everydayness |
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| (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonality |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: expectedness |
| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| commons | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commonalty |
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| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, green, park |
| (noun) a pasture subject to common use | Synonyms: common land |
| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| commotion | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult |
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| (noun) confused movement | Synonyms: whirl |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| commove | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, excite, rouse, turn on |
| comose | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comate |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comate |
| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogeny | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogony, cosmology |
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| cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogony | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmology |
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| cosmographer | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographist |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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| cosmography | (noun) a representation of the earth or the heavens | - |
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| (noun) the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy) | - |
| cosmolatry | (noun) the worship of the cosmos | - |
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| cosmologic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmological |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmological |
| cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
| cosmologist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe | - |
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| cosmology | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmogony |
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| (noun) the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe | - |
| cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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| cosmopolitan | (adjective) growing or occurring in many parts of the world | Synonyms: widely distributed |
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| (adjective) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolite |
| cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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| cosmopolite | (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolitan |
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| cosmos | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: creation, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmea |
| cosmotron | (noun) a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons | - |
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| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| countermove | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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