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- CONDUCTThe act or method of controlling or directing.
- CONDUCTIONThe conveying of heat or electricity through material.
- CONDUITA channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc. A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- CONFABClipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).
- CONFABULATETo speak casually with; to chat.
- CONFECTTo make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
- CONFEDERATEOf, relating to, or united in a confederacy
- CONFERTo grant as a possession; to bestow.
- CONFERVAAny of a number of unbranched slender green freshwater algae, formerly in the genus Conferva, now mostly in genera Cladophora or Tribonema
- CONFESSTo admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- CONFESSOROne who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- CONFIDETo have confidence in someone. To trust or have faith (in).
- CONFIGURATETo configure; to arrange or shape.
- CONFIGURETo set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
- CONFIRMTo strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
- CONFITAny of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation.
- CONFITEORA prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.
- CONFLAGRATETo catch fire.
- CONFLATETo combine or mix together.
- CONFLICTA clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
- CONFLUXA merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
- CONFORMTo adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative. To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- CONFORMABLEHaving the same shape or form; very similar.
- CONFUSETo puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand.
- CONFUSEDsimple past and past participle of confuse
- CONFUSIBLEAlternative spelling of confusable.
- CONFUTETo show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
- CONGEAlternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass.
- CONGEELeave, formal permission for some action, : Formal permission to leave; a passport.
- CONGERIESA collection or aggregation of disparate items.
- CONGIARYA present of corn, wine, oil, etc. or later of money, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the common people.
- CONGLOBATEShaped like or formed into a ball.
- CONGREETo agree.
- CONGREGATETo collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body.
- CONGRESSA formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
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- CONGRUOUSCorresponding in character.
- CONIFERA plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
- CONIFEROUSBearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- CONJUGALOf or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.
- CONJUGATETo inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- CONJURETo perform magic tricks.
- CONNThe duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
- CONNECTIONThe act of connecting. Coherence; lack of disjointedness. Sexual intercourse.
- CONQUERTo defeat in combat; to subjugate.
- CONSCIOUSAlert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
- CONSCRIBETo enroll; to enlist.
- CONSCRIPTOne who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
- CONSERVEWilderness where human development is prohibited.
- CONSIDERTo think about seriously.
- CONSIGLIEREA counselor or advisor, especially to Mafia bosses.
- CONSISTORIALOf or pertaining to a consistory.
- CONSISTORYA solemn assembly or council.
- CONSOLATEComforted, consoled.
- CONSOLATRIXA female consoler.
- CONSOLIDATETo combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
- CONSORTIUMAn association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
- CONSPICUOUSObvious or easy to notice.
- CONSPIRETo secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.
- CONSTABLEOne holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
- CONSTABULARYOf or relating to constables.
- CONSTITUTETo set up; to establish; to enact.
- CONSTRUCTSomething constructed from parts.
- CONSTRUEA translation.
- CONSTUPRATETo rape, violate.
- CONSUETUDECustom, familiarity.
- CONSULEither of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
- CONSULAROf or pertaining to a consul, or the office thereof.
- CONSULTA visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
- CONTACTThe act of touching physically; being in close association.
- CONTAGIOUSEasily transmitted to others.
- CONTAGIUMcontagion; contagious matter
- CONTAINTo hold inside.
- CONTEMPERTo modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate or soften.
- CONTEMPLATETo look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
- CONTEMPLATIVEInclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
- CONTEMPTThe state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
- CONTEMPTIBLEDeserving contempt.
- CONTIGUITYA state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
- CONTIGUOUSConnected; touching; abutting.
- CONTORTTo twist in a violent manner.
- CONTRAAgainst; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
- CONTRALTOThe lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term cont
- CONTRITESincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.
- CONTUMELIOUSRudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
- CONTUMELYOffensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
- CONTUSETo injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
- CONUSA cone.
- CONVERGETo approach each other; to get closer and closer; to become a unified whole; to come to share a similarity.
- CONVERSETo talk; to engage in conversation.
- CONVERTTo transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- CONVERTIBLEAble to be converted, particularly: Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially Able to be exchanged for specie. Able to be exchanged for foreign currency. Able to be excha
- CONVEXCurved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
- CONVEYTo move (something) from one place to another.
- CONVICTTo find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or in a moral sense.
- CONVOKETo convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
- CONVOLUTETo make unnecessarily complex.
- CONVOYOne or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
- CONVULSETo suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
- CONYA rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).