| 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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| 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 | - |
| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| cow | (noun) female of domestic cattle: | Synonyms: moo-cow |
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| (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' | - |
| (noun) a large unpleasant woman | - |
| (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: overawe |
| cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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| (noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
| coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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| cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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| cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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| cowberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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| cowboy | (noun) someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) | - |
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| (noun) a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging | Synonyms: rodeo rider |
| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowman |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
| cowfish | (noun) trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes | Synonyms: Lactophrys quadricornis |
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| cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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| cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowherb | (noun) European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort | Synonyms: cow cockle, Saponaria vaccaria, Vaccaria hispanica, Vaccaria pyramidata |
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| cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowhide | (noun) a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow | - |
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| (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowskin |
| (noun) the hide of a cow | - |
| (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
| cowhouse | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowshed |
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| cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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| (noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
| (verb) cover with or as with a cowl | - |
| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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| cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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| cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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| cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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| cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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| (noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
| (noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
| cowpie | (noun) fecal matter of a cow | Synonyms: cow pie |
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| cowpoke | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowpox | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: vaccinia |
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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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| cowrie | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowry |
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| cowry | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowrie |
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| cows | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cattle, kine, oxen |
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| cowshed | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse |
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| cowskin | (noun) leather made from the hide of a cow | Synonyms: cowhide |
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| cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| crew | (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: gang, work party |
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| (noun) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| (noun) the team of men or women manning a racing shell | - |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crowd, gang |
| (verb) serve as a crew member on | - |
| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| crewet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: cruet |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| (adverb) across a town or city | - |
| crosswalk | (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, crossover |
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| crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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| crossways | (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crosswise |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crossways |
| (adverb) not in the intended manner | - |
| crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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| crow | (noun) black birds having a raucous call | - |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (noun) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) | - |
| (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, triumph |
| (verb) express pleasure verbally | - |
| (verb) utter shrill sounds | - |
| crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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| crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
| (verb) to gather together in large numbers | Synonyms: crowd together |
| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: herd |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing | - |
| crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| crown | (noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: diadem |
| (noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crest |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
| (noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel | - |
| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: pate, poll |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: pennant |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: treetop |
| (noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings | - |
| (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
| (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
| (verb) form the topmost part of | - |
| crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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| crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
| (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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