| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| biont | (noun) a discrete unit of living matter | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
| (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
| (verb) make less sharp | - |
| (verb) make less intense | - |
| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: deaden |
| (verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb |
| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| bombardment | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling |
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| (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombing |
| (noun) the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) | - |
| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring |
| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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| brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| brunt | (noun) main force of a blow etc | - |
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| bunt | (noun) (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it | - |
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| (noun) fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores | Synonyms: Tilletia caries |
| (noun) similar to Tilletia caries | Synonyms: stinking smut, Tilletia foetida |
| (noun) disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores | Synonyms: stinking smut |
| (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: butt |
| (verb) hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance | Synonyms: drag a bunt |
| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| byzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, bezzant, solidus |
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| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| cant | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, chamfer |
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| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
| (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: buzzword |
| (noun) insincere talk about religion or morals | Synonyms: pious platitude |
| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, camber |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant over, pitch, slant, tilt |
| cantonment | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, encampment |
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| casement | (noun) a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side) | - |
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| catamount | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
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| (noun) short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur | Synonyms: lynx |
| catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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| catmint | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| cement | (noun) a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth | Synonyms: cementum |
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| (noun) a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar | - |
| (noun) something that hardens to act as adhesive material | - |
| (noun) concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement | - |
| (noun) any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth | - |
| (verb) bind or join with or as if with cement | - |
| (verb) make fast as if with cement | - |
| (verb) cover or coat with cement | - |
| cent | (noun) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit | Synonyms: centime, penny |
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| (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries | - |
| cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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| chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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| (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
| chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance | - |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
| client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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| (noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
| (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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| (noun) something that is commanded | - |
| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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| (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
| (verb) explain or interpret something | - |
| commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
| (noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
| (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
| (noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
| (noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
| (noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
| (verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
| component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
| confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the state of being confined | - |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, feeder, tributary |
| confront | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: face, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: face, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: face |
| (verb) be face to face with | - |
| congealment | (noun) the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing | Synonyms: congelation |
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