| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| cob | (noun) adult male swan | - |
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| (noun) stocky short-legged harness horse | - |
| (noun) white gull having a black back and wings | Synonyms: black-backed gull, great black-backed gull, Larus marinus |
| (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cobnut, filbert, hazelnut |
| cobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cyanocobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| cobaltite | (noun) a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt | - |
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| cobber | (noun) Australian term for a pal | - |
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| cobble | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobblestone, sett |
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| (verb) repair or mend | - |
| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobblestone |
| cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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| (noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
| (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
| cobblers | (noun) a man's testicles | - |
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| (noun) nonsense | - |
| cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| cobia | (noun) large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters | Synonyms: Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish |
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| cobnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, filbert, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert |
| cobra | (noun) venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood | - |
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| cobweb | (noun) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: gossamer |
| (noun) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider | - |
| cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| coccobacillus | (noun) a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus | - |
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| cocobolo | (noun) a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | Synonyms: Dalbergia retusa |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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| colobus | (noun) arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | Synonyms: colobus monkey |
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| conglobate | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobe |
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| conglobation | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglomeration |
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| (noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglomeration |
| conglobe | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobate |
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| cordoba | (noun) the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| corncob | (noun) the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | Synonyms: corn cob |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| coscoroba | (noun) large white South American bird intermediate in some respects between ducks and swans | - |
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| cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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| cryobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms | - |
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| cryophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of freezing | - |
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| cryptobiosis | (noun) a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill | - |
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| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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| cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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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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| cyberphobia | (noun) irrational fear of computers or technology | - |
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| cyclobenzaprine | (noun) muscle relaxant (trade name Flexeril) used for muscle spasms or acute injury | Synonyms: Flexeril |
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| cynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dogs | - |
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| demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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| demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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| disapprobation | (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: condemnation |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| discombobulated | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: disconcerted |
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| discombobulation | (noun) a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused | Synonyms: confusion |
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| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| disobediently | (adverb) in a disobedient manner | - |
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| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| dobbin | (noun) a quiet plodding workhorse | Synonyms: farm horse |
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| dobra | (noun) the basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe | - |
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| dobson | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson fly, dobsonfly |
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| (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: hellgrammiate |
| dobsonfly | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson, dobson fly |
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| doob | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, kweek, scutch grass, star grass |
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| doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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| earlobe | (noun) the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | Synonyms: ear lobe |
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| ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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| ectoblast | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoderm, exoderm |
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| elasmobranch | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: selachian |
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| endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| engobe | (noun) a clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. | - |
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| ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
| ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being noble | - |
| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| enrobe | (verb) adorn with a robe | - |
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| (verb) provide with a coating | - |
| enterobacteria | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, entric |
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| enterobiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children | - |
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| entoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| entomophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of insects | - |
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| equiprobable | (adjective) equally probable | - |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| erythroblastosis | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood | - |
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| exobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: astrobiology, space biology |
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| fibroblast | (noun) a cell from which connective tissue develops | - |
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| fluoroboride | (noun) a salt of fluoroboric acid | - |
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| fob | (noun) short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest | Synonyms: watch chain, watch guard |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a watch chain | - |
| (noun) a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch | Synonyms: watch pocket |
| (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
| gastrolobium | (noun) any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods | Synonyms: poison bush, poison pea |
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| glioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: spongioblastoma |
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| glob | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump |
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| global | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: planetary, world-wide, world, worldwide |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
| globalisation | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalization |
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| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| globalization | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalisation |
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| globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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