| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
| (adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinoid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea | - |
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| (noun) primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk | - |
| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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| (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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| (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
| crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| crud | (noun) an ill-defined bodily ailment | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: filth, skank |
| (noun) heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing | - |
| crumpled | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, dented |
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| crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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| (adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
| crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| ctenoid | (adjective) resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb | Synonyms: comb-like |
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| cuboid | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboidal |
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| (noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
| cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
| cud | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, plug, quid, wad |
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| (noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again | Synonyms: rechewed food |
| 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 |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultured | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite |
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| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cupboard | (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: closet |
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| cupid | (noun) a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow | - |
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| curd | (noun) coagulated milk; used to make cheese | - |
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| (noun) a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd | - |
| curdled | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, grumose, grumous |
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| cured | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: vulcanised, vulcanized |
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| (adjective) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening | - |
| (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: healed, recovered |
| (adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process | Synonyms: aged |
| (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: corned |
| (adjective) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry | - |
| curled | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curling |
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| cursed | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: curst |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cuspated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cussed | (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant |
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| custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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| cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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| cycad | (noun) any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves | - |
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| cycloid | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloidal |
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| (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line | - |
| cymbid | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbidium |
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| cyprinid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinoid |
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| (noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales | Synonyms: cyprinid fish |
| cyprinoid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinid |
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| d | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units | Synonyms: 500, five hundred |
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| (noun) the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: D |
| dabbled | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: spattered, splashed, splattered |
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| dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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| dad | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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| daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| damaged | (adjective) harmed or injured or spoiled | - |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: discredited |
| damned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| (noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment | - |
| (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: cursedly, damnably |
| danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| dappled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: mottled |
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| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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| dashboard | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: fascia |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: splashboard, splasher |
| dashed | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dotted |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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| (noun) a despicable coward | - |
| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| dazed | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: stunned, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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| (adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
| dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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| (adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
| (adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
| (adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
| (adjective) physically inactive | - |
| (adjective) devoid of activity | - |
| (adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
| (adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
| (adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
| (adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
| (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
| (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
| (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| debased | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, vitiated |
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| (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, adulterated |
| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: degraded, devalued |
| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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