| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
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| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
| counterspy | (noun) a spy who works against enemy espionage | Synonyms: mole |
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| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countess | (noun) female equivalent of a count or earl | - |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| countless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| countlessness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: innumerableness |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| county | (noun) (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government | - |
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| (noun) (United States) the largest administrative district within a state | - |
| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cunctation | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: procrastination, shillyshally |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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| (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
| (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
| cuneus | (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: wedge, wedge shape |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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| cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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| cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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| (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
| (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cunningly | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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| (adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cutely |
| cunt | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
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| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: bitch |
| cyberpunk | (noun) a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | - |
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| (noun) a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology | - |
| (noun) a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism | Synonyms: cyber-terrorist |
| dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| dauntlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: fearlessly, intrepidly |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| defunct | (adjective) having ceased to exist or live | - |
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| (adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive | - |
| defunctness | (noun) no longer in existence | Synonyms: extinction |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| denounce | (verb) speak out against | - |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) announce the termination of, as of treaties | - |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| disfunction | (noun) (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group | Synonyms: dysfunction |
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| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| disgruntled | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: dissatisfied |
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| disgruntlement | (noun) a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
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| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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| disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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| downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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| dracunculiasis | (noun) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin | Synonyms: Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease |
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| drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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| drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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