| cock | (noun) adult male bird | - |
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| (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: rooster |
| (noun) faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stopcock, turncock |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| (verb) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | - |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) tilt or slant to one side | - |
| cockade | (noun) an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat | - |
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| cockamamie | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamy |
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| cockamamy | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamie |
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| cockateel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockatiel | (noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head | Synonyms: cockateel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus |
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| cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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| cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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| cockeyed | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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| cockiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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| (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 |
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| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
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| cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
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| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
| cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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| (noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
| (noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
| cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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| cockscomb | (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: comb, coxcomb |
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| (noun) a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments | Synonyms: coxcomb |
| (noun) garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers | Synonyms: Celosia argentea cristata, Celosia cristata, common cockscomb |
| cocksfoot | (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cockspur, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
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| cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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| (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 |
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| (noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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| cocktail | (noun) a short mixed drink | - |
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| (noun) an appetizer served as a first course at a meal | - |
| cockup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, ballup, mess-up |
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| cocky | (adjective) overly self-confident or self-assertive | - |
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| coco | (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
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| cocoa | (noun) powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed | - |
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| (noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot | Synonyms: chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate |
| cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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| cocobolo | (noun) a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | Synonyms: Dalbergia retusa |
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| coconspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: conspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| coconut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: cocoanut |
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| (noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries | Synonyms: coconut meat |
| (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
| cocoon | (noun) silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs | - |
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| (verb) wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection | - |
| (verb) retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment | - |
| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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| cocotte | (noun) a small casserole in which individual portions can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| cocoyam | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: dasheen, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: dasheen, eddo, taro |
| cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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| (noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| cod | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: collect |
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| (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: codfish |
| (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: pod, seedcase |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| coda | (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: finale |
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| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| code | (noun) a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: codification |
| (noun) (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions | Synonyms: computer code |
| (noun) a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| (verb) attach a code to | - |
| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| codeine | (noun) derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain) | - |
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| coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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| 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 |
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| codex | (noun) an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) | Synonyms: leaf-book |
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| (noun) an official list of chemicals or medicines etc. | - |
| codfish | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: cod |
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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| codicil | (noun) a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will | - |
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| codification | (noun) the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: code |
| codified | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute |
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| codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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| coding | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography |
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| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| codon | (noun) a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid | - |
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| codpiece | (noun) (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches | - |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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| coeducation | (noun) education of men and women in the same institutions | - |
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| coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| coelacanth | (noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | Synonyms: Latimeria chalumnae |
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| coelenterate | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: cnidarian |
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| coelenteron | (noun) the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate | - |
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| coeliac | (adjective) of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen | Synonyms: celiac |
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| coelogyne | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Coelogyne with: clusters of fragrant lacy snow-white flowers; salmon-pink solitary flowers; chainlike racemes of topaz and chocolate brown flowers; spikes of delicate white spice-scented flowers; emerald green flowers marked with blue-black | - |
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| coelom | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celom, celoma |
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| coelophysis | (noun) one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic | - |
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| coelostat | (noun) optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror | - |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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| coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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| coenzyme | (noun) a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes | - |
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| coequal | (adjective) having the same standing before the law | - |
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| coerce | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: force, hale, pressure, squeeze |
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| coercion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: compulsion |
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| (noun) the act of compelling by force of authority | - |
| coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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| coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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| coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: contemporary |
| coevals | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: contemporaries, generation |
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| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| coextension | (noun) equality of extension or duration | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cofactor | (noun) a substance (as a coenzyme) that must join with another to produce a given result | - |
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| coffee | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, deep brown, umber |
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| (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: java |
| (noun) a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee | Synonyms: coffee bean, coffee berry |
| (noun) any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee tree |