| cryptorchidy | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchism |
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| cryptorchism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy |
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| crystal | (noun) a protective cover that protects the face of a watch | Synonyms: watch crystal, watch glass |
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| (noun) glassware made of quartz | - |
| (noun) a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices | - |
| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystallization |
| (noun) a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure | - |
| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalize | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| crystallisation | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallization, crystallizing |
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| crystallise | (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
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| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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| crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
| (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
| crystallize | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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| crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
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| crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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| crystallography | (noun) the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| curry | (noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice | - |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
| (verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
| (verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
| currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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| (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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| (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| dacryocyst | (noun) either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: lacrimal sac, tear sac |
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| dacryocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose | - |
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| dacryon | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone | - |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
| (noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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| (noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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| diary | (noun) a personal journal (as a physical object) | - |
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| (noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: journal |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
| (noun) something that is discovered | - |
| (noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| doddery | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, gaga, senile |
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| domiciliary | (adjective) of or relating to or provided in a domicile | - |
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| dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dory | (noun) marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | - |
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| (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike |
| (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat |