| c | (adjective) being ten more than ninety | Synonyms: 100, hundred, one hundred |
|---|
| (noun) the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: C |
| (noun) the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second | Synonyms: light speed, speed of light |
| cab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: hack, taxi, taxicab |
|---|
| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cabriolet |
| (noun) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits | - |
| (verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: taxi |
| cabal | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: conspiracy |
|---|
| (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: camarilla, faction, junto |
| (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
| cabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
|---|
| cabalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: kabbalism |
|---|
| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
|---|
| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
|---|
| cabana | (noun) a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool | - |
|---|
| cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
|---|
| (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
|---|
| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
|---|
| cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
|---|
| (noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
|---|
| cabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
|---|
| cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
|---|
| cabby | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
|---|
| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
|---|
| caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
|---|
| cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
|---|
| (noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
| (noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
| (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
| cabinet | (noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display | - |
|---|
| (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: console |
| (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: locker, storage locker |
| (noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | - |
| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
|---|
| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
|---|
| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
|---|
| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
|---|
| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| cable | (noun) a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire | - |
|---|
| (noun) a television system that transmits over cables | Synonyms: cable system, cable television, cable television service |
| (noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: line, transmission line |
| (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cablegram, overseas telegram |
| (noun) television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver | Synonyms: cable television |
| (noun) a nautical unit of depth | Synonyms: cable's length, cable length |
| (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: telegraph, wire |
| (verb) fasten with a cable | - |
| cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
|---|
| cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
|---|
| cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
|---|
| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
|---|
| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
|---|
| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
|---|
| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
|---|
| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
|---|
| cacao | (noun) tropical American tree producing cacao beans | Synonyms: cacao tree, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao |
|---|
| cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
|---|
| cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
|---|
| (noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
| (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
|---|
| cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
|---|
| (noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
| (noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
|---|
| cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
|---|
| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
|---|
| cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
|---|
| cachou | (noun) a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco) | - |
|---|
| cacique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cazique |
|---|
| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
|---|
| cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
|---|
| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
| (noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
| (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
|---|
| cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
|---|
| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
|---|
| cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
|---|
| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
|---|
| cacodyl | (noun) the univalent group derived from arsine | Synonyms: arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical |
|---|
| (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: tetramethyldiarsine |
| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
|---|
| cacoethes | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: mania, passion |
|---|
| cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
|---|
| cacogenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenic |
|---|
| cacogenics | (noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced | Synonyms: dysgenics |
|---|
| cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
|---|
| cacomistle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
|---|
| cacomixle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
|---|
| cacophonic | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonous |
|---|
| cacophonous | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonic |
|---|
| cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
|---|
| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
| cactus | (noun) any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines | - |
|---|
| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
|---|
| cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
|---|
| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
|---|
| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
|---|
| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
|---|
| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
|---|
| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
|---|
| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
|---|
| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
|---|
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
|---|
| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
|---|
| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
|---|
| caddy | (noun) a can for storing tea | Synonyms: tea caddy |
|---|
| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
| cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
|---|
| (noun) the close of a musical section | - |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
|---|
| cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
|---|
| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
|---|
| cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
|---|
| cadet | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: plebe |
|---|
| cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
|---|
| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
|---|
| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
|---|
| cadmium | (noun) a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 48, Cd |
|---|
| cadre | (noun) a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion | - |
|---|
| (noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cell |
| caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
|---|
| caduceus | (noun) an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes | - |
|---|
| caducous | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: shed |
|---|
| caecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: cecal |
|---|
| caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: blindworm |
| caecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, cecum |
|---|
| caenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
|---|
| caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
|---|
| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
|---|
| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| caesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, cesium, Cs |
|---|
| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
|---|