| circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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| circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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| circulation | (noun) the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | - |
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| (noun) the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) | - |
| (noun) free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) | - |
| (noun) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels | - |
| (noun) number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold | - |
| (noun) (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period | - |
| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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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 |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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| coagulable | (adjective) capable of coagulating and becoming thick | - |
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| coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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| coagulase | (noun) an enzyme that induces coagulation | - |
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| coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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| (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
| coagulated | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: solidified |
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| (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, curdled, grumose, grumous |
| coagulation | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, curdling |
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| coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
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| coagulum | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: clot |
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| colorful | (adjective) having much or varied color | Synonyms: colourful |
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| (adjective) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: colored, coloured, colourful |
| (adjective) striking in variety and interest | Synonyms: colourful |
| colourful | (adjective) having much or varied color | Synonyms: colorful |
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| (adjective) striking in variety and interest | Synonyms: colorful |
| (adjective) having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: colored, colorful, coloured |
| comatulid | (noun) free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms | Synonyms: feather star |
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| compulsion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: coercion |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid | Synonyms: irresistible impulse |
| compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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| (adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
| (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
| compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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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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| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| confabulation | (noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered | - |
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| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze |
| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| congratulation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: felicitation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: felicitation |
| congratulations | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: extolment, kudos, praise |
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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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| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| consul | (noun) a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country | - |
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| consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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| consulate | (noun) diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul | - |
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| consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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| consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
| (verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
| consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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| consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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| consultation | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: reference |
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| (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, interview |
| (noun) a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question | - |
| consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| convolvulus | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus | - |
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| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| convulsion | (noun) a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval | - |
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| (noun) violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles | - |
| (noun) a sudden uncontrollable attack | Synonyms: fit, paroxysm |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: turmoil, upheaval |
| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| convulsively | (adverb) with convulsions, in a convulsive way | - |
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| copula | (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copulative, linking verb |
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| copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| copulation | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| copulative | (adjective) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
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| (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| coulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second | Synonyms: ampere-second, C |
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| coulter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: colter |
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| counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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| credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| credulously | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: believingly |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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| cul | (noun) a passage with access only at one end | Synonyms: cul de sac, dead end |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| culdoscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cullis | (noun) a gutter in a roof | - |
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| culm | (noun) stem of plants of the Gramineae | - |
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| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| culmination | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: climax |
| (noun) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | - |
| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: apogee |
| culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| culpable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| culpably | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure | Synonyms: reprehensibly |
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| culprit | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: perpetrator |
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