| benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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| besom | (noun) a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
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| besot | (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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| bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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| bobbysocks | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysock |
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| bobbysoxer | (noun) an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | Synonyms: bobby-socker |
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| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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| (noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| calosoma | (noun) any beetle of the genus Calosoma | - |
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| calypso | (noun) rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf | Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper |
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| camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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| (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
| caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| censor | (noun) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable | - |
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| (noun) someone who censures or condemns | - |
| (verb) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship | - |
| (verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: ban |
| censored | (adjective) suppressed or subject to censorship | - |
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| censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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| censoring | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censorship |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censorship, security review |
| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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| (noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| chemisorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorption |
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| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemosorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorption |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chrisom | (noun) a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam | Synonyms: chrism, holy oil, sacramental oil |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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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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| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| compsognathus | (noun) very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria | - |
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| compulsorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: mandatorily, obligatorily |
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| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| confessor | (noun) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution | - |
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| (noun) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves) | - |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| consolable | (adjective) able to be consoled | - |
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| consolation | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, solace |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: solace, solacement |
| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| console | (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: cabinet |
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| (noun) an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) | - |
| (noun) a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) | - |
| (noun) a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall | Synonyms: console table |
| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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| (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
| consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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| (noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
| (noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
| consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| consolingly | (adverb) in a comforting or consoling manner | Synonyms: comfortingly |
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| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| consonance | (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
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| (noun) the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | Synonyms: consonant rhyme |
| consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel | - |
| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | - |
| consonantal | (adjective) being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a consonant | - |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| consortium | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: pool, syndicate |
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| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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| cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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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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| cosponsor | (verb) sponsor together with another sponsor | - |
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| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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| cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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| (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
| creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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| creosote | (noun) a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic | - |
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| (noun) a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood | Synonyms: coal-tar creosote |
| (verb) treat with creosote | - |
| cresol | (noun) any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant | Synonyms: methyl phenol |
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| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (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, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
| crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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| crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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| (noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
| (noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
| (noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |