cl | (adjective) being ten more than one hundred forty | Synonyms: 150, one hundred fifty |
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(noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centiliter, centilitre |
clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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(verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
clack | (noun) a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction | Synonyms: clack valve, clapper valve |
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(noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clap |
(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
clad | (adjective) wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: clothed |
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(adjective) having an outer covering especially of thin metal | - |
cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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cladogram | (noun) a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | - |
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cladophyll | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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claim | (noun) demand for something as rightful or due | - |
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(noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: title |
(noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: title |
(noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property) | - |
(noun) a demand | Synonyms: call |
(noun) an assertion that something is true or factual | - |
(verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
(verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
(verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
(verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
(verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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clairvoyance | (noun) apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses | Synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight |
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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 | - |
clam | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness | - |
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(noun) flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams | - |
(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
(verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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 |
clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
clammily | (adverb) in a clammy manner | - |
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clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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(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 | - |
clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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clamorously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: loudly, obstreperously |
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clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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(verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
(verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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(verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
(verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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clams | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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clamshell | (noun) the shell of a clam | - |
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(noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: grapple |
clan | (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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clang | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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(verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clangor |
clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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clangor | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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(verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
(verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
clangoring | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash |
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clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
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(verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
clank | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clash, crash |
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(verb) make a clank | - |
clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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clannish | (adjective) characteristic of a clan especially in being unified | - |
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(adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
clannishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: cliquishly |
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clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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clap | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, eruption |
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(noun) a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated | Synonyms: clack |
(noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea |
(verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
(verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
(verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
(verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
(verb) strike the air in flight | - |
(verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
clapboard | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: weatherboard, weatherboarding |
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(verb) cover with clapboards | - |
clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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(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 |
clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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(verb) claw with the nails | - |
clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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clapping | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: applause, hand clapping |
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claptrap | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant |
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claque | (noun) a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance | - |
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clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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(noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
(verb) drink claret | - |
clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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(noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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clarinet | (noun) a single-reed instrument with a straight tube | - |
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clarinetist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinettist |
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clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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(noun) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone | - |
(verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
(verb) blow the clarion | - |
clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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(noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
(noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
(noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
(verb) disagree violently | - |
(verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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clasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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(noun) a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together | - |
(verb) hold firmly and tightly | - |
(verb) grasp firmly | - |
(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: buckle |
(verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: brooch |
class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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(noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
(noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
(noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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(adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
(adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
(noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
(noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
(adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
(adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
(noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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classically | (adverb) in the manner of Greek and Roman culture | - |
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classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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(noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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classics | (noun) study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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(adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
(noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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(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 | - |
classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
(verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
classless | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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clast | (noun) (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | - |
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clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
clatter | (noun) a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement) | - |
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(verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |