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- COMTEA French count.
- CONARIUMThe pineal gland.
- CONATIONThe power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
- CONATIVEOf or pertaining to a striving action.
- CONATUSAn effort, an endeavour, a striving. Such a striving effort that is a life force.
- CONCAVITYThe state of being concave
- CONCEITFULImaginative, clever.
- CONCEITLESSStupid; thoughtless; dull.
- CONCHA marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- CONCHAAny shell-shaped structure: The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening. Ellipsis of nasal concha.
- CONCHESynonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- CONCHOA silver ornament either stamped with a design or inlaid with a stone.
- CONCHOIDAny of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distanc
- CONCHYA conscientious objector.
- CONCISEBrief, yet including all important information.
- CONCOURSA competitive examination, especially in medicine.
- CONCOURSEA large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to an
- CONCRETISENon-Oxford British spelling of concretize.
- CONCRETISTAn artist of the concretism movement.
- CONCUSSTo injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact.
- CONDcondition number
- CONDEROne who conns (conds) a ship; a conning officer.
- CONDOClipping of condominium.
- CONDOESClipping of condominium.
- CONDOLEFollowed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
- CONDOMA flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as polyurethane or sheepskin, worn over an erect penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a way t
- CONDOREither of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.
- CONDOTTIEREA mercenary military leader from 14th-century Italy and later in other parts of Europe.
- 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.
- CONDYLARRelating to or resembling a condyle.
- CONDYLEA smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
- CONDYLOMAA wartlike growth on the skin or a mucous membrane, caused by certain types of HPV viruses, usually occurring in the genital area.
- CONEA surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- CONEDsegregated or delineated by traffic cones
- CONEFLOWERAny of several similar flowering plants of tribe Heliantheae in order Asterales, in genera Dracopis, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Ratibida, that have a cone-shaped disk of florets.
- CONEPATLA kind of skunk.
- CONEPATLSA kind of skunk.
- CONFABClipping of confabulation (“a casual chat or talk”).
- CONFABULATETo speak casually with; to chat.
- CONFABULATOROne who confabulates.
- CONFECTTo make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
- CONFEDERALOf, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
- 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
- CONFERVOIDResembling conferva algae.
- 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.
- CONFETTISmall pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc.) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory cele
- CONFIDETo have confidence in someone. To trust or have faith (in).
- CONFIDEROne who confides.
- CONFIGURATETo configure; to arrange or shape.
- CONFIGURATIVEOf or pertaining to configuration
- 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.
- CONFIRMABLECapable of being checked, verifiable.
- CONFIRMEDLYIn a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.
- CONFISEURA French confectioner.
- 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.
- CONFITUREa preserve or jelly/jam of candied fruit
- CONFLAGRATETo catch fire.
- CONFLATETo combine or mix together.
- CONFLICTA clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
- CONFLICTFULTending towards conflict
- 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.
- CONFORMABLYWith or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
- CONFORMALThat conforms, especially to the shape of something.
- CONFORMISTSomeone who tries to conform to the mainstream.
- CONFORMITYThe state of things being similar or identical.
- CONFUSABLEAble to be confused.
- CONFUSETo puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand.
- CONFUSEDsimple past and past participle of confuse
- CONFUSEDLYIn a confused manner.
- CONFUSIBLEAlternative spelling of confusable.
- CONFUTABLEThat can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- CONFUTETo show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
- CONFUTERA person who confutes
- CONGAA tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
- CONGEAlternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass.
- CONGEALTo change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
- CONGEALERSomeone or something that congeals.
- CONGEELeave, formal permission for some action, : Formal permission to leave; a passport.
- CONGERAny of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
- CONGERIESA collection or aggregation of disparate items.
- CONGESTIVECharacterized by congestion
- 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.
- CONGLOBETo collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
- CONGLOMERATEA cluster of heterogeneous things.
- CONGLOMERATIVECausing, or relating to, conglomeration.
- CONGOUA kind of Chinese black tea.
- CONGREGATETo collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body.
- CONGREGATORA person who congregates or assembles
- CONGRESSA formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
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