| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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| camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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| camas | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camash, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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| camber | (noun) the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top | - |
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| (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, cant |
| (noun) a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) | - |
| (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
| cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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| cambium | (noun) the inner layer of the periosteum | - |
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| (noun) a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth | - |
| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| camcorder | (noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder | - |
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| camel | (noun) cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions | - |
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| camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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| camelia | (noun) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers | Synonyms: camellia |
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| camellia | (noun) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers | Synonyms: camelia |
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| camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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| camelpox | (noun) a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox | - |
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| cameo | (noun) engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring) | - |
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| camera | (noun) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) | Synonyms: photographic camera |
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| (noun) television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam | Synonyms: television camera, tv camera |
| cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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| camgirl | (noun) a female performer who performs sexual acts by camera on the internet | - |
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| camion | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: dray |
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| (noun) a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides | Synonyms: lorry |
| camise | (noun) a loose shirt or tunic; originally worn in the Middle Ages | - |
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| camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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| (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
| camlet | (noun) a fabric of Asian origin; originally made of silk and camel's hair | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of camlet fabric | - |
| camo | (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camouflage |
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| camomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, Chamaemelum nobilis, chamomile |
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| camosh | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, quamash |
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| camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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| (noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
| (noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
| (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
| camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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| camp | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: campy |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
| (noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
| (noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
| (noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
| (noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
| (noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
| (noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
| (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
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| (noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
| (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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| campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| campana | (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell, bell shape |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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| campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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| (noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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| camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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| camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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| camping | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, encampment, tenting |
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| campion | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: catchfly, silene |
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| campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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| campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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| campsite | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, encampment |
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| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| campus | (noun) a field on which the buildings of a university are situated | - |
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| campy | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: camp |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| camshaft | (noun) an engine shaft with cams attached to it | - |
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| camwood | (noun) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | Synonyms: African sandalwood, Baphia nitida |
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| can | (noun) airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. | Synonyms: tin, tin can |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a buoy with a round bottom and conical top | Synonyms: can buoy |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a can | Synonyms: canful |
| (verb) preserve in a can or tin | Synonyms: put up, tin |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| canal | (noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation | - |
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| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: channel, duct, epithelial duct |
| (noun) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion | - |
| (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canalise, canalize |
| canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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| canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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| canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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| canalisation | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalization |
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| (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalization, channelisation, channelization |
| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| canalization | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalisation |
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| (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, channelisation, channelization |
| canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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| canape | (noun) an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food | - |
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| canard | (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication | - |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| canasta | (noun) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank | Synonyms: basket rummy, meld |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| cancan | (noun) a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line | - |
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| cancel | (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: natural |
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| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
| cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancer | (noun) any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream | Synonyms: malignant neoplastic disease |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| (noun) the most common form of skin cancer | Synonyms: squamous cell carcinoma |
| candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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| (noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
| 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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| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candida | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida | - |
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| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |