| craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
| cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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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 |
| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
| cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
| cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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| curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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| (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
| (noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
| (noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| deceptively | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, misleadingly |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
| (adjective) unmistakable | - |
| decisively | (adverb) with finality; conclusively | - |
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| (adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: resolutely |
| (adverb) in an indisputable degree | - |
| decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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| (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decoratively | (adverb) in a decorative manner | - |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| decurved | (adjective) bent down or curved downward | - |
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| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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| (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
| (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
| defensively | (adverb) in a defensive manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an apologetic and defensive manner | - |
| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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| (adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| deliverable | (adjective) suitable for or ready for delivery | - |
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| (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| 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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| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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| delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denivelation | (noun) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. | - |
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| denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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| (adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
| denotive | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotative |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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| deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| depraved | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: perverse, perverted, reprobate |
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| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| deprecatively | (adverb) in a deprecative manner | - |
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| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| deprive | (verb) take away | Synonyms: impoverish |
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| (verb) keep from having, keeping, or obtaining | - |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: divest, strip |
| deprived | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: disadvantaged |
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| derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| derisively | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisorily, mockingly, scoffingly |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| derive | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: educe |
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| (verb) obtain from a particular source | - |
| (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, infer |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, descend |
| derived | (adjective) formed or developed from something else; not original | - |
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| derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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| deserve | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: merit |
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| deserved | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: merited |
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| deservedly | (adverb) as deserved | - |
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| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |