| chronometer | (noun) an accurate clock (especially used in navigation) | - |
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| chrysomelid | (noun) brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems | Synonyms: leaf beetle |
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| cleome | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: spiderflower |
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| clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| come | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
| (verb) be found or available | - |
| (verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
| (verb) happen as a result | - |
| (verb) have a certain priority | - |
| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
| (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
| (verb) cover a certain distance | - |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
| (verb) experience orgasm | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) extend or reach | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
| (verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
| comeback | (noun) return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| comedo | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: blackhead |
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| comedogen | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogenic, comedogenic substance |
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| comedogenic | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogen, comedogenic substance |
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| comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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| comedy | (noun) light and humorous drama with a happy ending | - |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness |
| comeliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, fairness, loveliness |
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| comely | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| comer | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, arriver |
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| (noun) someone with a promising future | - |
| comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| comet | (noun) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit | - |
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| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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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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| conglomerate | (adjective) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass | - |
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| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: empire |
| (noun) a composite rock made up of particles of varying size | Synonyms: pudding stone |
| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up |
| conglomeration | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglobation |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, congeries |
| (noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglobation |
| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| cryometer | (noun) a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
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| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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| cytochrome | (noun) (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration) | - |
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| cytomegalic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells | - |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
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| cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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| cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytostome | (noun) mouth of a protozoan | - |
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| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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| diapheromera | (noun) a variety of stick insect | Synonyms: Diapheromera femorata |
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| dichloromethane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant | Synonyms: methylene chloride |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| dome | (noun) a hemispherical roof | - |
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| (noun) a stadium that has a roof | Synonyms: covered stadium, domed stadium |
| (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, noggin, noodle |
| (noun) a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward | - |
| domed | (adjective) having a hemispherical vault or dome | Synonyms: vaulted |
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| domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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| (adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
| (adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
| (noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
| domestically | (adverb) with respect to home or family | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the internal affairs of a government | - |
| domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
| domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
| domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
| (noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| doomed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate | Synonyms: fated |
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| (adjective) marked for certain death | - |
| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, damned, unredeemed, unsaved |
| (adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune | Synonyms: ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky |
| (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: lost |
| drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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| dynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: ergometer |
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| econometric | (adjective) of or relating to econometrics | - |
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| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| elastomer | (noun) any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed) | - |
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| electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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| electromechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving an electrically operated mechanical device | - |
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| electrometer | (noun) meter to measure electrostatic voltage differences; draws no current from the source | - |
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| enantiomer | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomorph |
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| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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| endometriosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: adenomyosis |
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| endometritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: metritis |
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| endometrium | (noun) (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| episome | (noun) DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) | - |
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| epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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| (noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
| ergometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: dynamometer |
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| eriometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed. | - |
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| eudiometer | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| fathometer | (noun) depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves | Synonyms: sonic depth finder |
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| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| fearsomely | (adverb) in a fearsome manner | - |
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| femtometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometre, fermi |
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| femtometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometer, fermi |
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| fetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: foetometry |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| flatbottomed | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottom |
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| flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavorsomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavoursomeness, savoriness |
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| flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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