| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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| (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| caustically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: vitriolically |
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| celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
| celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
| chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| cholecystitis | (noun) inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
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| chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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| christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| colpocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina and bladder | - |
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| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| 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 |
| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| congestion | (noun) excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part | - |
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| (noun) excessive crowding | Synonyms: over-crowding |
| congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| constipated | (adjective) have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels | - |
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| constipation | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: deadening, impairment, stultification |
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| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: irregularity |
| constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, element |
| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction | Synonyms: grammatical constituent |
| (noun) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes | - |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constituted | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: established |
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| constitution | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: establishment, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | Synonyms: fundamental law, organic law |
| constitutional | (adjective) sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | - |
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| (adjective) of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup | - |
| (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic |
| (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral |
| (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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| (noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constitutionally | (adverb) according to the constitution | - |
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| constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastingly | (adverb) in a contrasting manner | - |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| costia | (noun) a flagellate that is the cause of the frequently fatal fish disease costiasis | Synonyms: Costia necatrix |
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| costiasis | (noun) a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin | - |
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| costing | (noun) cost accounting | - |
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| costive | (adjective) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cystic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a cyst | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a normal cyst (as the gallbladder or urinary bladder) | - |
| cystine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones | - |
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| cystitis | (noun) inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters | - |
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| cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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| czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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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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| deistic | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deist |
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| demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
| destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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