| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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| (noun) a wooden bucket | - |
| cannily | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: presciently |
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| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonically | (adverb) in a canonical manner | - |
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| canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
| canonization | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonisation |
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| canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| caponize | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponise |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonisation | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonization |
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| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carbonization | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonisation |
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| carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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| carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
| carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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| (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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| catamenia | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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| catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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| (noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
| catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catnip | (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: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centenary |
| centennially | (adverb) every hundred years; once in a century | - |
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| cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
| ceremonially | (adverb) in a ceremonial manner | Synonyms: ritually |
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| (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremoniously |
| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| ceremoniously | (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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| ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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| ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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| charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
| chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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| (noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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| chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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| chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
| (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |
| chronically | (adverb) in a slowly developing and long lasting manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a habitual and longstanding manner | Synonyms: inveterate |
| chronicle | (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, history, story |
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| (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
| chronicler | (noun) someone who writes chronicles | - |
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| chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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| chthonic | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, nether |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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| cinchonine | (noun) an alkaloid derivative of the bark of cinchona trees that is used as an antimalarial drug | - |
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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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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinically | (adverb) in a clinical manner | - |
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| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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| clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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| clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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| clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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| cocainise | (verb) anesthetize with cocaine | Synonyms: cocainize |
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| cocainize | (verb) anesthetize with cocaine | Synonyms: cocainise |
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| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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