| compsognathus | (noun) very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria | - |
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| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| concatenation | (noun) the act of linking together as in a series or chain | - |
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| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: chain |
| (noun) the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc | - |
| (noun) the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series | - |
| condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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| (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
| (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
| (noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| condonation | (noun) a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred | - |
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| congenator | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congener, congeneric, relative |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| conglutination | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion |
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| (noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: union |
| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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| (adjective) similar in nature | - |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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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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| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| (noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
| (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| coordinately | (adverb) in a coordinated manner | - |
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| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| coordination | (noun) the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation | - |
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| (noun) the skillful and effective interaction of movements | - |
| (noun) being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form | - |
| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| coordinator | (noun) someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously | Synonyms: co-ordinator |
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| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| coronation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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| crenature | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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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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| 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 |
| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| damnation | (noun) the act of damning | - |
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| (noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | Synonyms: eternal damnation |
| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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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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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decontamination | (noun) the removal of contaminants | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| demyelination | (noun) loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function | - |
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| denationalisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalization, privatisation, privatization |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denationalization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, privatisation, privatization |
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| denationalize | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalise |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| denatured | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denaturised, denaturized |
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| denaturised | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denatured, denaturized |
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| denaturized | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denatured, denaturised |
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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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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| deracination | (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: excision, extirpation |
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| (noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: displacement |
| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| desalination | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalinisation, desalinization |
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| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| 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 |
| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| detonation | (noun) the act of detonating an explosive | - |
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| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, explosion |
| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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| (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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