| congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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| congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
| (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
| congregational | (adjective) relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation | - |
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| congress | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
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| (noun) a meeting of elected or appointed representatives | - |
| (noun) a national legislative assembly | - |
| congressional | (adjective) of or relating to congress | - |
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| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congruence | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruity, congruousness |
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| congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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| (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
| congruity | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruousness |
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| congruous | (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruent |
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| (adjective) suitable or appropriate together | - |
| congruousness | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruity |
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| conic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conical |
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| (noun) (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone | Synonyms: conic section |
| conical | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conic |
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| conically | (adverb) in a conical manner | - |
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| conidiophore | (noun) a specialized fungal hypha that produces conidia | - |
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| conidiospore | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidium |
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| conidium | (noun) an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore | Synonyms: conidiospore |
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| conifer | (noun) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones | Synonyms: coniferous tree |
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| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| conima | (noun) a gum resin from the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum | - |
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| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| conjoin | (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: join |
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| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| conjoined | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoint |
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| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| conjointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, jointly, together with |
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| conjugal | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: connubial |
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| conjugally | (adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: connubial |
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| conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
| (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
| conjugation | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting |
| (noun) a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms | - |
| (noun) the complete set of inflected forms of a verb | - |
| (noun) the inflection of verbs | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction |
| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| conjuration | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuring, conjury, invocation |
| (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: incantation |
| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conjuring | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjury, invocation |
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| conjuror | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjurer |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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| conk | (noun) informal term for the nose | - |
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| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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| conn | (verb) conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane | - |
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| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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| (adjective) similar in nature | - |
| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |
| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connection | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connexion, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connexion |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connexion |
| (noun) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | - |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connexion |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connexion, link |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, link |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| connexion | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connection |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connector |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connection |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, link |
| conniption | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: fit, scene, tantrum |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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| (verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| connotation | (noun) an idea that is implied or suggested | - |
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| (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: intension |
| connotational | (adjective) of or relating to a connotation | Synonyms: connotative of |
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| connotative | (adjective) having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | - |
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| connote | (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: predicate |
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| (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: imply |
| connubial | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: conjugal |
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| (adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: conjugally |
| conodont | (noun) small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes | - |
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| (noun) the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta | - |
| conoid | (noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone, cone shape |
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| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| conquerable | (adjective) subject to being conquered or overcome | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being surmounted or excelled | Synonyms: superable |
| conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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| conqueror | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: vanquisher |
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| conquest | (noun) success in mastering something difficult | - |
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| (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, subjection, subjugation |
| (noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: seduction |
| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscientiously | (adverb) with extreme conscientiousness | Synonyms: religiously, scrupulously |
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| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| conscionable | (adjective) acceptable to your conscience | - |
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| conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
| consciously | (adverb) with awareness | - |
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| consciousness | (noun) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation | - |
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| (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness |
| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
| consecration | (noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God | - |
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| (noun) a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal) | - |
| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |