| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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| (adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| cereal | (adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it | - |
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| (noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: food grain, grain |
| (noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet | Synonyms: cereal grass |
| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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| chanal | (noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries | Synonyms: chanar, Geoffroea decorticans |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: fusain |
| (noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material | - |
| (noun) a very dark grey color | Synonyms: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey |
| (noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air | Synonyms: wood coal |
| (verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal | - |
| cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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| chemical | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemic |
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| (adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes | - |
| (noun) material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules | Synonyms: chemical substance |
| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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| chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| chlamydial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the sexually transmitted infection or to the parasite | - |
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| choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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| (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
| chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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| chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chronological | (adjective) relating to or arranged according to temporal order | - |
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| cilial | (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: ciliary, ciliate |
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| circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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| clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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| classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
| (adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
| (adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
| (noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
| clausal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a clause | - |
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| clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
| (adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
| climatical | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatic |
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| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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| cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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| clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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| coal | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: ember |
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| (noun) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period | - |
| (verb) take in coal | - |
| (verb) supply with coal | - |
| (verb) burn to charcoal | Synonyms: char |
| coastal | (adjective) located on or near or bordering on a coast | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a coast | - |
| (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastwise |
| coaxal | (adjective) having a common axis | Synonyms: coaxial |
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| coaxial | (adjective) having a common axis | Synonyms: coaxal |
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| coccal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus | - |
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| coccygeal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the coccyx | - |
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| cochineal | (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye | Synonyms: cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus |
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| (noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects | - |
| coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| coequal | (adjective) having the same standing before the law | - |
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| coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: contemporary |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coital | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: copulatory |
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| collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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| (adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
| (adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| (noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
| collegial | (adjective) characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues | - |
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| (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegiate |
| colloidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid | - |
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| colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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| colonial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony | - |
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| (adjective) of animals who live in colonies, such as ants | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: compound |
| (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
| colorectal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum | - |
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| colorimetrical | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetric |
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| colossal | (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: prodigious, stupendous |
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| comal | (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comate, comose |
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| combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| comical | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| commensal | (adjective) living in a state of commensalism | - |
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| (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
| commercial | (adjective) connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to commercialism | - |
| (adjective) of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior | Synonyms: commercial-grade |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking |
| (noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
| committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| communal | (adjective) relating to a small administrative district or community | - |
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| (adjective) for or by a group rather than individuals | - |
| communicational | (adjective) used in communication | - |
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| compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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| complemental | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complementary, completing |
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| compositional | (adjective) arranging or grouping | - |
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| computational | (adjective) of or involving computation or computers | - |
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| conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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| conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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| conditional | (adjective) imposing or depending on or containing a condition | - |
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| (adjective) qualified by reservations | - |
| conferral | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferment |
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| confessional | (noun) a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions | - |
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| confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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| (adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
| (adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
| configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| congeal | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: jell, set |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| congenial | (adjective) suitable to your needs | - |
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| (adjective) (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted | - |
| congenital | (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: inborn, innate |
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| congregational | (adjective) relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation | - |
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| congressional | (adjective) of or relating to congress | - |
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| conical | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conic |
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| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjugal | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: connubial |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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| (adjective) similar in nature | - |
| connotational | (adjective) of or relating to a connotation | Synonyms: connotative of |
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| connubial | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: conjugal |
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| (adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: conjugally |
| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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