| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| concamerate | verb t. | To arch over; to vault., To divide into chambers or cells. |
| concatenate | verb t. | To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another. |
| concavation | noun | The act of making concave. |
| concaveness | noun | Hollowness; concavity. |
| concavities | plural | of Concavity |
| concealable | adjective | Capable of being concealed. |
| concealment | noun | The act of concealing; the state of being concealed., A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation., A secret; out of the way knowledge., Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. |
| conceitedly | adverb | In an egotistical manner., Fancifully; whimsically. |
| conceitless | adjective | Without wit; stupid. |
| conceivable | adjective | Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. |
| concentered | imp. & past participle | of Concentre |
| concentring | of Concentre | |
| concentrate | verb t. | To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention., To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; — opposed to dilute., To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities. |
| conceptacle | noun | That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle., A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles., One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae. |
| conceptible | adjective | Capable of being conceived; conceivable. |
| conceptious | adjective | Apt to conceive; fruitful. |
| concernedly | adverb | In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically. |
| concertante | noun | A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts. |
| conchometer | noun | An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire. |
| conchometry | noun | The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry. |
| conchylious | adjective | Conchylaceous. |
| conciliable | noun | A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature., Capable of being conciliated or reconciled. |
| conciliated | imp. & past participle | of Conciliate |
| conciliator | noun | One who conciliates. |
| concionator | noun | An haranguer of the people; a preacher., A common councilman. |
| conciseness | noun | The quality of being concise. |
| concitation | noun | The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. |
| concludency | noun | Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. |
| conclusible | adjective | Demonstrable; determinable. |
| concolorous | adjective | Of the same color throughout. |
| concomitant | adjective | Accompanying; conjoined; attending., One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment. |
| concordable | adjective | Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious. |
| concordance | noun | Agreement; accordance., Concord; agreement., An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place., A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book. |
| concordancy | noun | Agreement. |
| concrescive | adjective | Growing together, or into union; uniting. |
| concubinacy | noun | The practice of concubinage. |
| concubinage | noun | The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine., A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine. |
| concubinary | adjective | Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage., One who lives in concubinage. |
| concubinate | noun | Concubinage. |
| concultated | imp. & past participle | of Conculcate |
| concurrence | noun | The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination., A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; — implying joint approbation., Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation., A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts. |
| concurrency | noun | Concurrence. |
| condemnable | Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable. | |
| condensable | adjective | Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. |
| condensated | imp. & past participle | of Condensate |
| condensible | adjective | Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. |
| condignness | noun | Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness. |
| condisciple | noun | A schoolfellow; a fellow-student. |
| conditioned | imp. & past participle | of Condition, Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man., Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute. |
| conditional | adjective | Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise., Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense., A limitation., A conditional word, mode, or proposition. |
| conditionly | adverb | Conditionally. |
| conditories | plural | of Conditory |
| condolatory | adjective | Expressing condolence. |
| condolement | noun | Condolence., Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. |
| condonation | noun | The act of condoning or pardoning., Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. |
| condottieri | plural | of Condottiere |
| condottiere | noun | A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. |
| conductible | adjective | Capable of being conducted. |
| conductress | noun | A woman who leads or directs; a directress. |
| condylomata | plural | of Condylome |
| cone pulley | A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape. | |
| confabulate | verb i. | To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. |
| confederacy | noun | A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance., The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation., A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. |
| confederate | adjective | United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied., Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money., One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense., A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865)., To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally., To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together. |
| conferrable | adjective | Capable of being conferred. |
| confessedly | adverb | By confession; without denial. |
| confidently | adverb | With confidence; with strong assurance; positively. |
| configurate | verb i. | To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern. |
| configuring | present participle & vb. noun | of Configure |
| confineless | adjective | Without limitation or end; boundless. |
| confinement | noun | Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion., Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. |
| confirmable | adjective | That may be confirmed. |
| confirmance | noun | Confirmation. |
| confirmator | noun | One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer. |
| confirmedly | adverb | With confirmation. |
| confiscable | adjective | Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture. |
| confiscated | imp. & past participle | of Confiscate |
| confiscator | noun | One who confiscates. |
| conflagrant | adjective | Burning together in a common flame. |
| conflicting | present participle & vb. noun | of Conflict, Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing. |
| conflictive | adjective | Tending to conflict; conflicting. |
| confluxible | adjective | Inclined to flow or run together. |
| conformable | adjective | Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; — usually followed by to., Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant., Parallel, or nearly so; — said of strata in contact. |
| conformably | adverb | With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably. |
| conformance | noun | Conformity. |
| confounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Confound |
| confronting | present participle & vb. noun | of Confront |
| confutation | noun | The act or process of confuting; refutation. |
| confutative | adjective | Adapted or designed to confute. |
| confutement | noun | Confutation. |
| congealable | adjective | Capable of being congealed. |
| congealment | noun | The act or the process of congealing; congeliation., That which is formed by congelation; a clot. |
| congelation | noun | The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing., The state of being congealed., That which is congealed. |
| congeneracy | noun | Similarity of origin; affinity. |
| congenerous | adjective | Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. |
| congenially | adverb | In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed. |
| conglaciate | verb t. & i. | To turn to ice; to freeze. |
| conglobated | imp. & past participle | of Conglobate |
| congo snake | An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma. | |
| congregated | imp. & past participle | of Congregate |
| congression | noun | A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. |
| congressive | adjective | Encountering, or coming together. |
| congressmen | plural | of Congressman |
| congressman | noun | A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives. |
| congruities | plural | of Congruity |
| congruously | adverb | In a congruous manner. |
| conicalness | noun | State or quality of being conical. |
| conirostral | adjective | Belonging to the Conirostres. |
| conirostres | noun pl. | A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches. |
| conjectural | adjective | Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. |
| conjectured | imp. & past participle | of Conjecture |
| conjecturer | noun | One who conjectures. |
| conjubilant | adjective | Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together. |
| conjugality | noun | The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. |
| conjugating | present participle & vb. noun | of Conjugate |
| conjugation | noun | the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage., Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple., The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections., A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb., A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner., A kind of sexual union; — applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed. |
| conjunction | noun | The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league., The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6., A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if. |
| conjunctiva | noun | The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane. |
| conjunctive | adjective | Serving to unite; connecting together., Closely united. |
| conjuncture | noun | The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination., A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions. |
| conjuration | noun | The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration., The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment., A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy. |
| conjurement | noun | Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. |
| connascence | noun | Alt. of Connascency |
| connascency | noun | The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together., That which is born or produced with another., The act of growing together. |
| connectedly | adverb | In a connected manner. |
| connoisseur | noun | One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. |
| connotation | noun | The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted. |
| connotative | adjective | Implying something additional; illative., Implying an attribute. See Connote. |
| conquadrate | verb t. | To bring into a square. |
| conquassate | verb t. | To shake; to agitate. |
| conquerable | adjective | Capable of being conquered or subdued. |
| conscienced | adjective | Having a conscience. |
| consciously | adverb | In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one’s own mental operations or actions. |
| consecrated | imp. & past participle | of Consecrate |
| consecrater | noun | Consecrator. |
| consecrator | noun | One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. |
| consecution | noun | A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence., A succession or series of any kind. |
| consecutive | adjective | Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years., Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding., Having similarity of sequence; — said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. |
| consentient | adjective | Agreeing in mind; accordant. |
| consequence | noun | That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result., A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference., Chain of causes and effects; consecution., Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction. |
| conservable | adjective | Capable of being preserved from decay or injury. |
| conservancy | noun | Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. |
| conservator | noun | One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver., An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff., One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate. |
| considering | present participle & vb. noun | of Consider |
| considerate | adjective | Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other., Having respect to; regardful. |
| consignment | noun | The act of consigning; consignation., The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc., That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance., The writing by which anything is consigned. |
| consilience | noun | Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. |
| consimility | noun | Common resemblance. |
| consistence | noun | Alt. of Consistency |
| consistency | noun | The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity., A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude., That which stands together as a united whole; a combination., Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency., Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. |
| consociated | imp. & past participle | of Consociate |
| consolation | noun | The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit. |
| consolatory | adjective | Of a consoling or comforting nature., That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation. |
| consolidant | adjective | Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm. |
| consolidate | adjective | Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated., To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm., To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic., To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound., To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. |
| consonantal | adjective | Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants. |
| consonantly | adverb | In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably. |
| consortable | adjective | Suitable for association or companionship. |
| consortship | noun | The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. |
| conspecific | adjective | Of the same species. |
| conspersion | noun | The act of sprinkling. |
| conspicuity | noun | The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness. |
| conspicuous | adjective | Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye., Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault. |
| conspirator | noun | One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. |
| conspurcate | verb t. | To pollute; to defile. |
| constablery | noun | The constabulary., The district or jurisdiction of a constable. |
| constabless | noun | The wife of a constable. |
| constellate | verb i. | To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light., To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars., To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens. |
| constipated | imp. & past participle | of Constipate |
| constituent | adjective | Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component., Having the power of electing or appointing., The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs., That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element., One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; — correlative to representative., A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact. |
| constituted | imp. & past participle | of Constitute |
| constituter | noun | One who constitutes or appoints. |
| constrained | imp. & past participle | of Constrain, Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. |
| constrainer | noun | One who constrains. |
| constricted | imp. & past participle | of Constrict, Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped., Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others. |
| constrictor | noun | That which constricts, draws together, or contracts., A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter., A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor. |
| constringed | imp. & past participle | of Constringe |
| constructed | imp. & past participle | of Construct |
| constructer | noun | One who, or that which, constructs or frames. |
| constructor | noun | A constructer. |
| constuprate | verb t. | To ravish; to debauch. |
| consumingly | adverb | In a consuming manner. |
| consummated | imp. & past participle | of Consummate |
| consumption | noun | The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction., The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay., A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; — called also pulmonary consumption. |
| consumptive | adjective | Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting., Affected with, or inclined to, consumption., One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. |
| contagioned | adjective | Affected by contagion. |
| containable | adjective | Capable of being contained or comprised. |
| containment | noun | That which is contained; the extent; the substance. |
| contaminate | verb t. | To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile., Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. |
| contamitive | adjective | Tending or liable to contaminate. |
| contemplant | adjective | Given to contemplation; meditative. |
| contemplate | verb t. | To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study., To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend., To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate. |
| contendress | noun | A female contestant. |
| contenement | noun | That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance. |
| contentious | adjective | Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome., Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention., Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. |
| contentless | adjective | Discontented; dissatisfied. |
| contentment | verb t. | The state of being contented or satisfied; content., The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible., Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction. |
| conterminal | adjective | Conterminous. |
| contestable | adjective | Capable of being contested; debatable. |
| contextural | adjective | Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. |
| contextured | adjective | Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. |
| continental | adjective | Of or pertaining to a continent., Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition., Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money., A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3. |
| continently | adverb | In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately. |
| contingence | noun | See Contingency. |
| contingency | noun | Union or connection; the state of touching or contact., The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass., An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance., An adjunct or accessory., A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected. |
| continuable | adjective | Capable of being continued |
| continually | adverb | Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually., In regular or repeated succession; very often. |
| continuance | noun | A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay., Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation., A holding together; continuity., The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another., The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record. |
| continuator | noun | One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer. |
| continuedly | adverb | Continuously. |
| contorniate | noun | Alt. of Contorniate, A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; — supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. |
| contrabasso | noun | The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone. |
| contracting | present participle & vb. noun | of Contract |
| contractile | adjective | tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. |
| contraction | noun | The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold., The process of shortening an operation., The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease., Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; — as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc., The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne’er for never; can’t for can not; don’t for do not; it’s for it is., A marriage contract. |
| contractive | adjective | Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting. |
| contracture | noun | A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles. |
| contradance | noun | A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. |
| contrariant | adjective | Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. |
| contrariety | noun | The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism., Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency. |
| contrarious | adjective | Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. |
| contrasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Contrast |
| contratenor | noun | Counter tenor; contralto. |
| contravened | imp. & past participle | of Contravene |
| contravener | noun | One who contravenes. |
| contrayerva | noun | A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic. |
| contretemps | noun | An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch. |
| contributed | imp. & past participle | of Contribute |
| contributer | noun | One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine. |
| contristate | verb t. & i. | To make sorrowful. |
| contrivance | noun | The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning., The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. |
| controlling | present participle & vb. noun | of Control |
| controlment | noun | The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence., Opposition; resistance; hostility. |
| controverse | noun | Controversy., To dispute; to controvert. |
| controversy | noun | Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions., Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference., A suit in law or equity; a question of right. |
| contubernal | adjective | Alt. of Contubernial |
| contumacies | plural | of Contumacy |
| convalesced | imp. & past participle | of Convalesce, Convalescent. |
| convallaria | noun | The lily of the valley. |
| convallarin | noun | A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley. |
| convenience | noun | Alt. of Conveniency |
| conveniency | noun | The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety., Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation., That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one’s wants; an accommodation., A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one’s convenience. |
| conventical | adjective | Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. |
| conventicle | noun | A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly., An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; — often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. |
| convergence | noun | Alt. of Convergency |
| convergency | noun | The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point. |
| conversable | adjective | Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. |
| conversably | adverb | In a conversable manner. |
| conversance | noun | The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. |
| conversancy | noun | Conversance |
| conversible | adjective | Capable of being converted or reversed. |
| convertible | adjective | Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable., Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. |
| convertibly | adverb | In a convertible manner. |
| convexities | plural | of Convexity |
| conveyancer | noun | One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. |
| convicinity | noun | Immediate vicinity; neighborhood. |
| convincible | adjective | Capable of being convinced or won over., Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. |
| convivially | adverb | In a convivial manner. |
| convocating | present participle & vb. noun | of Convocate |
| convocation | noun | The act of calling or assembling by summons., An assembly or meeting., An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs., An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted. |
| convolution | noun | The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion., The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself., An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain. |
| convolvulin | noun | A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties. |
| convolvulus | noun | A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |