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- 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.
- CONSISTORYA solemn assembly or council.
- CONSOLATEComforted, consoled.
- CONSOLATRIXA female consoler.
- CONSOLIDATETo combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
- CONSORTThe spouse of a monarch.
- 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.
- CONSULATERule by consuls, as during most periods of the Roman Republic or in France between 1799 and 1804.
- CONSULTA visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
- CONSUMPTIVEHaving a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
- 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.
- CONTROLTo exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- 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).
- COOPA basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
- COOPERATETo work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
- COORDINATEOf the same rank; equal.
- COPIOUSVast in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
- COPULAA word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predi
- COPULATETo engage in sexual intercourse.
- COPULATIONThe act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
- COPULATIVEOf or pertaining to copulation.
- COPYThe result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
- CORBEILA decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
- CORBELA structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
- CORBIEA raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
- CORDATEHeart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.
- CORDIALHearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
- CORDIFORMHeart-shaped.
- COREIn general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- CORIUMThe layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues.
- CORNAGEA feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
- CORNEAThe transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.
- CORNEAEplural of cornea
- CORNELAny tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
- CORNETA musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
- CORNETTOA trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
- CORNIFICProducing horns; forming horn.
- CORNIFYTo convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
- CORNUA horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
- CORNUSAny of the genus Cornus of dogwoods.
- CORNUTETo give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
- CORNUTOA cuckold.
- CORONALRelating to a crown or coronation.
- CORONATETo crown (a sovereign or champion).
- CORPOSANTAn electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere
- CORPSA battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- CORPULENCEThe characteristic or state of being corpulent.
- CORPULENTLarge in body; fat; overweight.
- CORPUSA collection of written or spoken texts. Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- CORPUSCLEA minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
- CORSAIRA French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.
- CORSEA (living) body.
- CORTEXThe outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.