| comb | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: combing |
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| (noun) ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | - |
| (noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb |
| (noun) a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair | - |
| (noun) any of several tools for straightening fibers | - |
| (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
| (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
| (verb) straighten with a comb | - |
| combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| combed | (adjective) (of hair) made tidy with a comb | - |
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| comber | (noun) a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
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| (noun) a long curling sea wave | - |
| (noun) a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
| combinable | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinational, combinatory |
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| combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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| (noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
| (noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
| (noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
| (noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
| (noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
| (noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
| combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combined | (adjective) made or joined or united into one | - |
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| combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| combo | (noun) a small band of jazz musicians | Synonyms: jazz band, jazz group |
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| combretum | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers | - |
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| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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