| cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| corythosaur | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaurus |
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| cosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: kosher |
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| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| cosmographer | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographist |
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| cosplayer | (noun) Someone who wears a costume from a comic book or similar media | - |
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| cosponsor | (verb) sponsor together with another sponsor | - |
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| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| costumer | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumier |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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| cottar | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cotter |
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| (noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cotter |
| cotter | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cottar |
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| (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cottier |
| (noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cottar |
| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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| cougar | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
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| coulter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: colter |
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| councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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| counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
| counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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| (noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
| (noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counterpunch, parry |
| (noun) table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted | - |
| (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: tabulator |
| (noun) a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: heel counter |
| (noun) game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games | - |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, sideboard |
| (noun) (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) a person who counts things | - |
| (adverb) in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) speak in response | - |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall |
| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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| counteroffer | (noun) an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer | - |
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| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| coupler | (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupling |
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| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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| (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
| (noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
| (noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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| (noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
| (noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
| (noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
| (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
| (noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
| (noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
| (verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
| (verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
| (verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
| (verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
| (verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
| (verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
| (verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
| (verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
| (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
| (verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
| (verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
| (verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
| (verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
| (verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
| (verb) provide for | - |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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| (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
| (noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
| (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
| (noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
| crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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| crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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| (noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
| (noun) a student who crams | - |
| (noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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| crasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: gatecrasher, unwelcome guest |
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| crater | (noun) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano | Synonyms: volcanic crater |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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| creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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| creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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| crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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| (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
| (noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| critter | (noun) a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) | - |
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| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| crofter | (noun) an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain | - |
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| crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
| (noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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| (noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
| (noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
| (noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crowbar | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge | Synonyms: pry, pry bar, wrecking bar |
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| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| crucifer | (noun) any of various plants of the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: cruciferous plant |
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| cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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| (noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
| (noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
| cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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| crupper | (noun) a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward | - |
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| crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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| crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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| cryometer | (noun) a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
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| cryptographer | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptologist |
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| crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| cupbearer | (noun) the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine | - |
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| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| cupper | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cuppa |
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| cupular | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupulate |
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| cur | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: mongrel, mutt |
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| (noun) a cowardly or contemptible person | - |
| curator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: conservator |
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| curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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| curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| cursor | (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: pointer |
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