| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
|---|
| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
|---|
| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
|---|
| chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
|---|
| chronicler | (noun) someone who writes chronicles | - |
|---|
| chronometer | (noun) an accurate clock (especially used in navigation) | - |
|---|
| chuddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chador |
|---|
| chukker | (noun) (polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided | Synonyms: chukka |
|---|
| churchgoer | (noun) a religious person who goes to church regularly | Synonyms: church member |
|---|
| churr | (verb) make a vibrant sound, as of some birds | Synonyms: whirr |
|---|
| cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
|---|
| cigar | (noun) a roll of tobacco for smoking | - |
|---|
| cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
|---|
| cinematographer | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cameraman |
|---|
| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
|---|
| (noun) large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort | Synonyms: Callimorpha jacobeae, cinnabar moth |
| (noun) a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury | - |
| cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
|---|
| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| circular | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
|---|
| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
|---|
| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
|---|
| cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
|---|
| (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
| clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
|---|
| (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
| clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
|---|
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
|---|
| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din |
| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
|---|
| (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
|---|
| clangor | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
|---|
| (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
| (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
| clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
|---|
| (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
| clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
|---|
| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
|---|
| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
|---|
| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
|---|
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
|---|
| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
|---|
| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
|---|
| cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
|---|
| (noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
| (noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
| cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
|---|
| clear | (adjective) readily apparent to the mind | - |
|---|
| (adjective) allowing light to pass through | - |
| (adjective) free from clouds or mist or haze | - |
| (adjective) accurately stated or described | Synonyms: well-defined |
| (adjective) free from confusion or doubt | - |
| (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: percipient |
| (adjective) clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible | Synonyms: clean-cut, clear-cut |
| (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
| (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: decipherable, readable |
| (adjective) clear of charges or deductions | - |
| (adjective) free from flaw or blemish or impurity | - |
| (adjective) (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law | Synonyms: unmortgaged |
| (adjective) affording free passage or view | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt) | - |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, light, unclouded |
| (adjective) free from contact or proximity or connection | - |
| (noun) a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water | Synonyms: open |
| (noun) the state of being free of suspicion | - |
| (adverb) in an easily perceptible manner | Synonyms: clearly |
| (adverb) entirely | Synonyms: all the way |
| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: unclutter |
| (verb) make clear, bright, light, or translucent | - |
| (verb) free (the throat) by making a rasping sound | Synonyms: clear up |
| (verb) make a way or path by removing objects | - |
| (verb) remove the occupants of | - |
| (verb) remove (people) from a building | - |
| (verb) rid of instructions or data | - |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, pass |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) pass by, over, or under without making contact | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) pass an inspection or receive authorization | - |
| (verb) go away or disappear | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: net |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: net, sack, sack up |
| (verb) be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts | - |
| (verb) sell to get rid of | - |
| (verb) clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc. | - |
| (verb) free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment | - |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: pass |
| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: brighten, clear up, light up |
| cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
|---|
| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
|---|
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
|---|
| (noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
| climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
|---|
| (noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
| (noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
| (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
| (noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
|---|
| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
|---|
| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
|---|
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
|---|
| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
|---|
| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
|---|
| clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
|---|
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
|---|
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
|---|
| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
|---|
| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
|---|
| (noun) a person who closes something | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: nearer, nigher |
| clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
|---|
| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
|---|
| clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
|---|
| clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
|---|
| clumber | (noun) a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair | Synonyms: clumber spaniel |
|---|
| cluster | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, clustering |
|---|
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
|---|
| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
| clyster | (noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: enema |
|---|
| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
|---|
| coadjutor | (noun) an assistant to a bishop | - |
|---|
| coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
|---|
| coaster | (noun) a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) | - |
|---|
| (noun) someone who coasts | - |
| (noun) a resident of a coastal area | - |
| coauthor | (noun) a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | Synonyms: joint author |
|---|
| coaxer | (noun) someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing | Synonyms: wheedler |
|---|
| cobber | (noun) Australian term for a pal | - |
|---|
| cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
|---|
| (noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
| (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
| cochlear | (adjective) of or relating to the cochlea of the ear | - |
|---|
| cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
|---|
| cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
|---|
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
|---|
| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
|---|
| cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
|---|
| (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
| cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
|---|
| (noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
| coconspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: conspirator, machinator, plotter |
|---|
| coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
|---|
| coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
|---|
| codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
|---|
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
|---|
| cofactor | (noun) a substance (as a coenzyme) that must join with another to produce a given result | - |
|---|
| coffer | (noun) a chest especially for storing valuables | - |
|---|
| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, lacunar |
| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
|---|
| coiffeur | (noun) a man hairdresser | - |
|---|
| coiner | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: minter, moneyer |
|---|
| (noun) someone who is a source of new words or new expressions | - |
| (noun) a maker of counterfeit coins | - |
| coir | (noun) stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut | - |
|---|
| colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
|---|
| collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
|---|
| (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
| collar | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody |
|---|
| (noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: leash |
| (noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: neckband |
| (noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband |
| (noun) a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it | - |
| (noun) the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: shoe collar |
| (noun) a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part | - |
| (noun) anything worn or placed about the neck | - |
| (noun) (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal | - |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) furnish with a collar | - |
| (verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
| collator | (noun) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards. | - |
|---|
| collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
|---|
| (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
| (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
| collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
|---|
| collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
|---|
| collimator | (noun) optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam | - |
|---|
| (noun) a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one | - |
| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
|---|
| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
|---|
| colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
|---|
| color | (adjective) having or capable of producing colors | Synonyms: colour |
|---|
| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: coloring, colour, colouring |
| (noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: colour |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: coloration, colour, colouration |
| (noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: colour, vividness |
| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: colour, gloss, semblance |
| (noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: colour |
| (noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: coloring material, colour, colouring material |
| (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
| (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: colour, discolor, discolour |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: colour, distort, tinge |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: colour, gloss |
| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: colour, emblazon |
| (verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: colour |
| colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
|---|
| colour | (adjective) having or capable of producing colors | Synonyms: color |
|---|
| (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring |
| (noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: color |
| (noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration |
| (noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: color, vividness |
| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance |
| (noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: color |
| (noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: color, coloring material, colouring material |
| (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour |
| (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, distort, tinge |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, gloss |
| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, emblazon |
| (verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: color |