conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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(noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
(noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
condone | (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: excuse |
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cone | (noun) any cone-shaped artifact | - |
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(noun) a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color | Synonyms: cone cell, retinal cone |
(noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts | Synonyms: strobile, strobilus |
(noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone shape, conoid |
(verb) make cone-shaped | - |
coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
(noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
conelike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conic, conical |
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conenose | (noun) large bloodsucking bug | Synonyms: big bedbug, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, kissing bug |
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conessi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi |
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coney | (noun) black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins | Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus |
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(noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: cony, rabbit |
(noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
(noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: cony, das, dassie, hyrax |
confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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(noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
(noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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(noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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coronet | (noun) margin between the skin of the pastern and the horn of the hoof | - |
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(noun) a small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign | - |
coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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corticosterone | (noun) secreted by the adrenal cortex; involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body | - |
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cortisone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone | Synonyms: Cortone Acetate |
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cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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coumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, cumarone |
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crone | (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, hag, witch |
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crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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crossbones | (noun) two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death | - |
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cumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, coumarone |
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curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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cyclone | (noun) a violent rotating windstorm | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern | - |
dapsone | (noun) antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases | - |
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deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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demonetisation | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetization |
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demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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demonetization | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetisation |
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demonetize | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetise |
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depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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dethronement | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: deposition |
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dexamethasone | (noun) a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation | Synonyms: Decadron, Dexamethasone Intensol, Dexone, Hexadrol, Oradexon |
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diaphone | (noun) a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones | - |
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directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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dishonest | (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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(adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal |
dishonestly | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: deceitfully, venally |
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dishonesty | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: knavery |
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(noun) the quality of being dishonest | - |
disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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done | (adjective) cooked until ready to serve | - |
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(adjective) having finished or arrived at completion | Synonyms: through, through with |
donee | (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: beneficiary |
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dragonet | (noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
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dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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(noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
drone | (noun) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen | - |
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(noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: bourdon, drone pipe |
(noun) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control | Synonyms: pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft |
(noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: droning, monotone |
(noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
(verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
(verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
earphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earpiece, headphone, phone |
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ecphonesis | (noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: exclamation |
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electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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(noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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electroneutral | (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: neutral |
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endoneurium | (noun) delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve | - |
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enthrone | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: throne |
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(verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: invest, vest |
enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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entryphone | (noun) An intercom system which enables someone, without opening the door, to converse with the person who has rung the doorbell. | - |
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envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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epigone | (noun) an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician | Synonyms: epigon |
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epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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erroneous | (adjective) containing or characterized by error | - |
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erroneously | (adverb) in a mistaken or erroneous manner | Synonyms: mistakenly |
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erroneousness | (noun) inadvertent incorrectness | Synonyms: error |
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estrone | (noun) a naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: Estronol, oestrone, theelin |
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executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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exonerated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, vindicated |
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exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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(noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
exponential | (adjective) of or involving exponents | - |
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(noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
exponentially | (adverb) in an exponential manner | - |
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exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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fashioned | (adjective) planned and made or fashioned artistically | - |
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festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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firestone | (noun) a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns | - |
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(noun) a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire | - |
fishbone | (noun) a bone of a fish | - |
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flagstone | (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flag |
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flavone | (noun) a colorless crystalline compound that is part of a number of white or yellow plant pigments | - |
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flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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gallstone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: bilestone |
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gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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gone | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed |
(adjective) destroyed or killed | Synonyms: done for, kaput |
(adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone |
(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
(adjective) used up or no longer available | - |
goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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