| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| concatenated | imp. & past participle | of Concatenate |
| concelebrate | verb t. | To celebrate together. |
| concentering | p. pr & vb. noun | of Concentre |
| concentrated | imp. & past participle | of Concentrate |
| concentrator | noun | An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. |
| concentrical | adjective | Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. |
| conceptional | adjective | Pertaining to conception. |
| concertation | noun | Strife; contention. |
| concertative | adjective | Contentious; quarrelsome. |
| concessively | adverb | By way of concession. |
| conchiferous | adjective | Producing or having shells. |
| conchologist | noun | One who studies, or is versed in, conchology. |
| conciliabule | noun | An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. |
| conciliating | p. pr & vb. noun | of Conciliate |
| conciliation | noun | The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated. |
| conciliative | adjective | Conciliatory. |
| conciliatory | adjective | Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. |
| concionatory | adjective | Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses. |
| conclamation | noun | An outcry or shout of many together. |
| concludingly | adverb | Conclusively. |
| conclusively | adverb | In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. |
| concomitance | noun | Alt. of Concomitancy |
| concomitancy | noun | The state of accompanying; accompaniment., The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only. |
| concordantly | adverb | In a concordant manner. |
| concorporate | verb t. & i. | To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate., United in one body; incorporated. |
| concremation | noun | The act of burning different things together. |
| concrescence | noun | Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. |
| concrescible | adjective | Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. |
| concreteness | noun | The quality of being concrete. |
| concretional | adjective | Concretionary. |
| concretively | adverb | In a concrete manner. |
| conculcating | present participle & vb. noun | of Conculcate |
| concupiscent | adjective | Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious. |
| concurrently | adverb | With concurrence; unitedly. |
| concussation | noun | A violent shock or agitation. |
| condemnation | noun | The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation., The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture., The state of being condemned., The ground or reason of condemning. |
| condemnatory | adjective | Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree. |
| condensating | present participle & vb. noun | of Condensate |
| condensation | noun | The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed., The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water., A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. |
| condensative | adjective | Having the property of condensing. |
| condescended | imp. & past participle | of Condescend |
| conditioning | present participle & vb. noun | of Condition |
| conditionate | verb t. | Conditional., To qualify by conditions; to regulate., To put under conditions; to render conditional. |
| conductivity | noun | The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve. |
| conduplicate | adjective | Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; — said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation. |
| cone-in-cone | adjective | Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; — said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks. |
| confabulated | imp. & past participle | of Confabulate |
| confectioner | noun | A compounder., One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc. |
| confederated | imp. & past participle | of Confederate |
| confederater | noun | A confederate. |
| confederator | noun | A confederate. |
| conferential | adjective | Relating to conference. |
| confessional | noun | The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest’s ear without being seen by him or heard by others., Pertaining to a confession of faith. |
| confidential | adjective | Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk., Communicated in confidence; secret. |
| confirmation | noun | The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment., That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony., A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc., A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable. |
| confirmative | adjective | Tending to confirm or establish. |
| confirmatory | adjective . | Serving to confirm; corroborative., Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. |
| confirmingly | adverb | In a confirming manner. |
| confiscating | present participle & vb. noun | of Confiscate |
| confiscation | noun | The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. |
| confiscatory | adjective | Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. |
| conformation | noun | The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity., The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement. |
| conformities | plural | of Conformity |
| confortation | noun | The act of strengthening. |
| confoundedly | adverb | Extremely; odiously; detestable. |
| confrication | noun | A rubbing together; friction. |
| confrontment | noun | The act of confronting; the state of being face to face., The act of confronting; the state of being face to face. |
| confucianism | noun | The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. |
| confucianist | noun | A follower of Confucius; a Confucian. |
| confusedness | noun | A state of confusion. |
| congenerical | adjective | Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. |
| congeniality | noun | The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. |
| congenialize | verb t. | To make congenial. |
| congenitally | dverb | In a congenital manner. |
| conglobating | present participle & vb. noun | of Conglobate |
| conglobation | noun | The act or process of forming into a ball., A round body. |
| conglobulate | verb i. | To gather into a small round mass. |
| conglomerate | adjective | Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light., Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers., Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together., That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation., A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; — opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia., To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass. |
| conglutinant | adjective | Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts. |
| conglutinate | adjective | Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance., To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together., To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce. |
| congratulant | adjective | Rejoicing together; congratulatory. |
| congratulate | verb t. | To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to., To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one’s country. |
| congregating | present participle & vb. noun | of Congregate |
| congregation | noun | The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass., A collection or mass of separate things., An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet., The whole body of the Jewish people; — called also Congregation of the Lord., A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church., A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order., The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees., the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation. |
| conjecturing | present participle & vb. noun | of Conjecture |
| conjointness | noun | The quality of being conjoint. |
| conjunctival | adjective | Joining; connecting., Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva. |
| connaturally | adverb | By the act of nature; originally; from birth. |
| connectively | adverb | In connjunction; jointly. |
| connubiality | noun | The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness. |
| consanguined | adjective | Of kin blood; related. |
| conscionable | adjective | Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. |
| conscionably | adverb | Reasonably; justly. |
| conscription | noun | An enrolling or registering., A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft., Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. |
| consecrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Consecrate |
| consecration | noun | The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. |
| consecratory | adjective | Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. |
| consentingly | adverb | With consent; in a compliant manner. |
| consequently | adverb | By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection. |
| conservation | noun | The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. |
| conservatism | noun | The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative. |
| conservative | adjective | Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative., Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation., Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; — contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical., One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver., One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; — opposed to revolutionary or radical., A member of the Conservative party. |
| conservatory | adjective | Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury., That which preserves from injury., A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants., A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music. |
| conservatrix | noun | A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc. |
| considerable | adjective | Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to., Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; — said of persons., Of importance or value. |
| considerably | adverb | In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much. |
| considerance | noun | Act of considering; consideration. |
| considerator | noun | One who considers. |
| consignatary | noun | A consignee. |
| consignation | noun | The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state., The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification., A stamp; an indication; a sign. |
| consignatory | noun | One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. |
| consignature | noun | Joint signature. |
| consistently | adverb | In a consistent manner. |
| consistorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a consistory. |
| consistorian | adjective | Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; — a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. |
| consistories | plural | of Consistory |
| consociating | present participle & vb. noun | of Consociate |
| consociation | noun | Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy., A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united. |
| consolidated | imp. & past participle | of Consolidate, Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified., Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. |
| consonantize | verb t. | To change into, or use as, a consonant. |
| consopiation | noun | The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. |
| conspectuity | noun | The faculty of seeing; sight; eye. |
| conspiracies | plural | of Conspiracy |
| conspiration | noun | Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy. |
| conspiringly | adverb | In the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy. |
| constabulary | adjective | Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables., The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country. |
| constipating | present participle & vb. noun | of Constipate |
| constipation | noun | Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation., A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness. |
| constituency | noun | A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district. |
| constituting | present participle & vb. noun | of Constitute |
| constitution | noun | The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation., The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation., The aggregate of all one’s inherited physical qualities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with reference to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution., The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament., The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs., An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian. |
| constitutive | adjective | Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential., Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. |
| constraining | present participle & vb. noun | of Constrain |
| constricting | present participle & vb. noun | of Constrict |
| constriction | noun | The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression., The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. |
| constrictive | adjective | Serving or tending to bind or constrict. |
| constringing | present participle & vb. noun | of Constringe |
| constringent | adjective | Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. |
| constructing | present participle & vb. noun | of Construct |
| construction | noun | The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition., The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement., The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement., The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense. |
| constructive | adjective | Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power., Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. |
| constructure | noun | That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. |
| consultation | noun | The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision., A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. |
| consultative | adjective | Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. |
| consultatory | adjective | Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. |
| consummating | present participle & vb. noun | of Consummate |
| consummately | adverb | In a consummate manner; completely. |
| consummation | noun | The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). |
| consummative | adjective | Serving to consummate; completing. |
| contabescent | adjective | Wasting away gradually. |
| contagionist | noun | One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever. |
| contagiously | adverb | In a contagious manner. |
| contaminable | adjective | Capable of being contaminated. |
| contaminated | imp. & past participle | of Contaminate |
| contemningly | adverb | Contemptuously. |
| contemperate | verb t. | To temper; to moderate. |
| contemplance | noun | Contemplation. |
| contemplated | imp. & past participle | of Contemplate |
| contemplator | noun | One who contemplates. |
| contemporary | adjective | Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous., Of the same age; coeval., One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries. |
| contemptible | adjective | Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable., Despised; scorned; neglected; abject., Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. |
| contemptibly | adverb | In a contemptible manner. |
| contemptuous | adjective | Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. |
| contentation | noun | Content; satisfaction. |
| conterminant | adjective | Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous. |
| conterminate | adjective | Having the same bounds; conterminous. |
| conterminous | adjective | Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. |
| conterranean | adjective | Alt. of Conterraneous |
| contestation | noun | The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute., Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. |
| contestingly | adverb | In a contending manner. |
| contignation | noun | The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric., A framework or fabric, as of beams. |
| contingently | adverb | In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally. |
| continuation | noun | That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation., That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. |
| continuative | noun | A term or expression denoting continuance., A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction. |
| continuities | plural | of Continuity |
| continuously | adverb | In a continuous maner; without interruption. |
| contractible | adjective | Capable of contraction. |
| contradicted | imp. & past participle | of Contradict |
| contradicter | noun | one who contradicts. |
| contradictor | noun | A contradicter. |
| contrapuntal | adjective | Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint. |
| contrariness | noun | state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy. |
| contrariwise | adverb | On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand., In a contrary order; conversely. |
| contravening | present participle & vb. noun | of Contravene |
| contributary | adjective | Contributory., Tributary; contributing. |
| contributing | present participle & vb. noun | of Contribute |
| contribution | noun | The act of contributing., That which is contributed; — either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals., An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country., Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit. |
| contributive | adjective | Contributing, or tending to contribute. |
| contributory | adjective | Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive., One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. |
| contriteness | noun | Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition. |
| contriturate | verb t. | To triturate; to pulverize. |
| contrivement | noun | Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. |
| controllable | adjective | Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. |
| controversal | adjective | Turning or looking opposite ways., Controversial. |
| controverser | noun | A disputant. |
| controversor | noun | A controverser. |
| controverted | imp. & past participle | of Controvert |
| controverter | noun | One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. |
| contubernial | adjective | Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship. |
| contumacious | adjective | Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient., Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. |
| contumelious | adjective | Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful., Shameful; disgraceful. |
| convalescing | present participle & vb. noun | of Convalesce |
| convalescent | adjective | Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength., Of or pertaining to convalescence., One recovering from sickness. |
| convectively | adverb | In a convective manner. |
| conveniently | adverb | In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. |
| conventicler | noun | One who supports or frequents conventicles. |
| conventional | adjective | Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated., Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal., Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules., Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t. |
| conventioner | noun | One who belongs to a convention or assembly. |
| conversantly | adverb | In a familiar manner. |
| conversation | noun | General course of conduct; behavior., Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance., Commerce; intercourse; traffic., Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue., Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation. |
| conversative | adjective | Relating to intercourse with men; social; — opposed to contemplative. |
| convexedness | noun | Convexity. |
| conveyancing | noun | The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another. |
| convict1ible | adjective | Capable of being convicted. |
| convincement | noun | Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. |
| convincingly | adverb | in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent. |
| convivialist | noun | A person of convivial habits. |
| conviviality | noun | The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity. |
| convoluluses | plural | of Convolvulus |
| convulsional | adjective | Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. |
| convulsively | adverb | in a convulsive manner. |
| cony-catcher | noun | A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. |