| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chemic | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemical |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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| chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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| chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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| (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chlorotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: greensick |
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| choc | (noun) colloquial British abbreviation | - |
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| choleraic | (adjective) relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera | - |
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| choleric | (adjective) characterized by anger | Synonyms: irascible |
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| (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
| (adjective) easily moved to anger | - |
| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| chondritic | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: granular |
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| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| chromatic | (adjective) being or having or characterized by hue | - |
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| (adjective) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones | - |
| (adjective) able to refract light without spectral color separation | - |
| chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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| chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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| chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
| (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |
| chthonic | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, nether |
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| chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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| cinematic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema | - |
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| citric | (adjective) of or related to citric acid | - |
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| civic | (adjective) of or relating or belonging to a city | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civil |
| classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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| (adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
| (adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
| (noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
| (noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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| cleric | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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| (noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
| climactic | (adjective) consisting of or causing a climax | - |
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| climatic | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatical |
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| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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| clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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| coeliac | (adjective) of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen | Synonyms: celiac |
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| coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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| colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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| collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| colonic | (adjective) of or relating to the colon | - |
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| (noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
| colorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetrical |
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| comedogenic | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogen, comedogenic substance |
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| cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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| comic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of comedy | - |
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| (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
| (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comedian |
| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
| conic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conical |
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| (noun) (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone | Synonyms: conic section |
| conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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| (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
| copacetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copasetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copesetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesettic |
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| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
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| cosec | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosecant |
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| coseismic | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismal |
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| cosmetic | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: enhancive |
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| (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: decorative, ornamental |
| (noun) a toiletry designed to beautify the body | - |
| cosmic | (adjective) of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe | - |
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| (adjective) inconceivably extended in space or time | - |
| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmologic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmological |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmological |
| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| critic | (noun) a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art | - |
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| (noun) anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something | - |
| (noun) someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments | - |
| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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| cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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| (adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cupric | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cuprous |
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| cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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| cyanogenic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenetic |
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| cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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| cyclic | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclical |
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| (adjective) of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure | - |
| (adjective) forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the Carnot cycle | - |
| (adjective) marked by repeated cycles | - |
| cyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
| cyclothymic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting cyclothymia | - |
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| cylindric | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindrical |
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| cynic | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: faultfinder |
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| cystic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a cyst | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a normal cyst (as the gallbladder or urinary bladder) | - |
| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetical |
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| cytokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following the division of the nucleus | - |
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| cytologic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of cytology | Synonyms: cytological |
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| cytolytic | (adjective) of or relating to cytolysis, the dissolution or destruction of a cell | - |
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| cytomegalic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells | - |
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