| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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| calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calvary | (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: martyrdom |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| carry | (noun) the act of carrying something | - |
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| (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) include, as on a list | - |
| (verb) sing or play against other voices or parts | - |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: convey, express |
| (verb) pass on a communication | - |
| (verb) win in an election | - |
| (verb) secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) | - |
| (verb) cover a certain distance or advance beyond | - |
| (verb) have a certain range | - |
| (verb) be successful in | - |
| (verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) be able to feed | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, hold |
| (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: transport |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: dribble |
| (verb) bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of | - |
| (verb) propel or give impetus to | - |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) bear (a crop) | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) pursue a line of scent or be a bearer | - |
| (verb) transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication | - |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: stock, stockpile |
| (verb) capture after a fight | - |
| (verb) have on the surface or on the skin | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) extend to a certain degree | - |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: persuade, sway |
| (verb) compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance | - |
| (verb) take further or advance | - |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: pack, take |
| (verb) be necessarily associated with or result in or involve | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, contain, hold |
| (verb) be equipped with (a mast or sail) | - |
| (verb) have or possess something abstract | - |
| (verb) have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence | - |
| (verb) keep up with financial support | - |
| (verb) be conveyed over a certain distance | - |
| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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| caryatid | (noun) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person | - |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| caryopsis | (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: grain |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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| (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| cavalry | (noun) a highly mobile army unit | - |
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| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: horse, horse cavalry |
| cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
| cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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| centaury | (noun) any plant of the genus Centaurea | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurium | - |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
| century | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, hundred, one C |
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| (noun) a period of 100 years | - |
| cephalometry | (noun) measurement of human heads | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a 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 |
| chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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| (noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
| chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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| (noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
| (noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
| (noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
| (noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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| (noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
| (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
| (noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
| chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| chrysalis | (noun) pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon | - |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| chrysarobin | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: araroba, Goa powder |
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| chrysoberyl | (noun) a rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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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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| chrysopid | (noun) pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae | Synonyms: green lacewing, stink fly |
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| chrysoprase | (noun) a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysotherapy | (noun) the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis) | - |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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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 | - |
| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |