| 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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| 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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| 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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| cytopathogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells | - |
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| cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytoplasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoplasm | Synonyms: cytoplasmic |
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| cytoplasmic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoplasm | Synonyms: cytoplasmatic |
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| cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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| cytotoxic | (adjective) of or relating to substances that are toxic to cells | - |
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| czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| dactylic | (adjective) of or consisting of dactyls | - |
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| decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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| deictic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use | - |
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| (noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
| deific | (adjective) characterized by divine or godlike nature | - |
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| deistic | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deist |
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| demagogic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogical |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| demographic | (adjective) of or relating to demography | - |
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| (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
| demonic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| demotic | (adjective) of or for the common people | - |
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| dendritic | (adjective) (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite | - |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatologic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatological |
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| dermic | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermal |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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| diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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| diabetic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing diabetes | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from diabetes | - |
| (noun) someone who has diabetes | - |
| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |