| confined | (adjective) not free to move about | - |
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| (adjective) not invading healthy tissue | - |
| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed |
| confirmed | (adjective) having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation | - |
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| (adjective) of persons; not subject to change | - |
| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| confounded | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| confused | (adjective) mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently | - |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
| (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: disoriented, lost |
| congealed | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: jelled, jellied |
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| congested | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: engorged |
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| conjoined | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoint |
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| conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| conoid | (noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone, cone shape |
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| consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
| conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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| considered | (adjective) carefully weighed | - |
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| consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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| (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
| constipated | (adjective) have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels | - |
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| constituted | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: established |
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| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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| (adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
| consummated | (adjective) brought to completion | - |
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| contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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| contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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| (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |
| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| continued | (adjective) without stop or interruption | - |
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| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| (noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| cooked | (adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat | - |
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| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| copepod | (noun) minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | Synonyms: copepod crustacean |
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| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| copyhold | (noun) a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services | - |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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| corbelled | (adjective) having a corbel | - |
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| cord | (noun) a line made of twisted fibers or threads | - |
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| (noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: corduroy |
| (noun) a light insulated conductor for household use | Synonyms: electric cord |
| (noun) a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet | - |
| (verb) stack in cords | - |
| (verb) bind or tie with a cord | - |
| corded | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: twilled |
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| cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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| coreid | (noun) a true bug | Synonyms: coreid bug |
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| corkboard | (noun) a heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking | - |
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| corked | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corky |
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| corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| corticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticosteroid |
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| corticosteroid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticoid |
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| cosmid | (noun) (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments | - |
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| costumed | (adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class | - |
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| cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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| cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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| (noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
| cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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| (noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
| cotyloid | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: acetabular, cotyloidal |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| coupled | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: joined, linked |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, conjugated |
| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| covered | (adjective) overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form | - |
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| coveted | (adjective) much wanted | Synonyms: in demand, sought-after, sought after |
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| coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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| cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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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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| cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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| cowshed | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse |
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| crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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| crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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| craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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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 |
| crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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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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| cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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