| clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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| clang | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clangor |
| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clangoring | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clapping | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: applause, hand clapping |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup |
| clearing | (noun) the act of freeing from suspicion | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clarification |
| (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: glade |
| cleg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: clegg, horse fly, horsefly |
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| clegg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, horse fly, horsefly |
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| clerking | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: bookkeeping |
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| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
| (verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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| clog | (noun) a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps | Synonyms: clog dance, clog dancing |
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| (noun) any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction | - |
| (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: geta, patten, sabot |
| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: constipate |
| (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: overload |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clot |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden | - |
| (verb) dance a clog dance | - |
| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closure, shutdown |
| (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: shutting |
| (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: completion, culmination, mop up, windup |
| (noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closure |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, conclusion, end, ending |
| clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
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| clouding | (noun) the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | Synonyms: clouding up |
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| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| clubbing | (noun) a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease | - |
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| clucking | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: cluck |
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| clumping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking |
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| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| clustering | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
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| coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| coaming | (noun) a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out | - |
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| coating | (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, covering |
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| (noun) a thin layer covering something | Synonyms: coat |
| (noun) a heavy fabric suitable for coats | - |
| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: finish, finishing |
| coaxing | (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: ingratiatory |
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| (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: blarney, soft soap, sweet talk |
| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| coding | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography |
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| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| cog | (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: sprocket |
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| (noun) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function | - |
| (verb) join pieces of wood with cogs | - |
| (verb) roll steel ingots | - |
| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| coloring | (noun) the act or process of changing the color of something | Synonyms: colouring |
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| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, colour, colouring |
| (noun) a digestible substance used to give color to food | Synonyms: colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
| colouring | (noun) the act or process of changing the color of something | Synonyms: coloring |
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| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colour |
| (noun) a digestible substance used to give color to food | Synonyms: coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
| combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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| (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
| coming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: climax, orgasm, sexual climax |
| (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: advent |
| (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| comparing | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparison |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| completing | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, complementary |
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| composing | (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composition |
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| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composition |
| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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| (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| conforming | (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conformist |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| confusing | (adjective) causing confusion or disorientation | - |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling |
| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| conjuring | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjury, invocation |
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| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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