| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancer | (noun) any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream | Synonyms: malignant neoplastic disease |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
| capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
| captaincy | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captainship |
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| carancha | (noun) South American caracara | Synonyms: Polyborus plancus |
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| carbuncle | (noun) an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus | - |
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| (noun) deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets | - |
| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| caruncle | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncula |
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| caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chance | (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: casual |
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| (noun) a risk involving danger | - |
| (noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: probability |
| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck |
| (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: opportunity |
| (noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: prospect |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chanceful | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chancy, dicey, dodgy |
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| chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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| (noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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| (noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
| chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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| chancroid | (noun) infectious venereal ulcer | - |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chancy | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy |
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| (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy |
| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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| (noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
| (noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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| cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
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| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
| (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
| (verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
| (verb) make sure of | - |
| (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
| cinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: chinchona |
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| (noun) medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine | Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark |
| cinchonine | (noun) an alkaloid derivative of the bark of cinchona trees that is used as an antimalarial drug | - |
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| cincture | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: girdle, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
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| circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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| (noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
| circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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| (noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
| (noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
| circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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| clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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| clearance | (noun) permission to proceed | - |
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| (noun) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them | - |
| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: headroom, headway |
| clemency | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: mercifulness, mercy |
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| (noun) good weather with comfortable temperatures | Synonyms: mildness |
| clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
| clenched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clinched |
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| clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
| (noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
| (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
| (verb) settle conclusively | - |
| (verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
| (verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
| (verb) embrace amorously | - |
| (verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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| (noun) persuasive relevance | - |
| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coincide | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: concur |
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| (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, cooccur |
| (verb) be the same | - |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coincidentally | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidently |
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| coincidently | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidentally |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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| comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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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 | - |
| concave | (adjective) curving inward | - |
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| concavely | (adverb) in a concave way | - |
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| concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
| concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |