barbarous(adj sat) - primitive in customs and culture;
  #2 (adj sat) - brutal; cruel; fell; roughshod; savage; vicious;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
barium(n) - atomic number 56; ba;a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite;
bark(n) - barque;a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts;
  #2 (n) - the sound made by a dog;
  #3 (n) - a noise resembling the bark of a dog;
  #4 (n) - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants;
  #5 (v) - tan (a skin) with bark tannins;
  #6 (v) - speak in an unfriendly tone;
  #7 (v) - make barking sounds;
  #8 (v) - skin;remove the bark of a tree;
  #9 (v) - cover with bark;
barn(n) - an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals;
  #2 (n) - b;a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter;
barren(n) - waste; wasteland;an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
  #2 (adj sat) - destitute; devoid; free; innocent;completely wanting or lacking;
  #3 (adj sat) - not bearing offspring;
  #4 (adj sat) - bare; bleak; desolate; stark;providing no shelter or sustenance;

baseball(n) - baseball game;a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs;
  #2 (n) - a ball used in playing baseball;
basement(n) - cellar;the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage;
  #2 (n) - the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture;
bead(n) - a small ball with a hole through the middle;
  #2 (n) - astragal; beading; beadwork;a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture;
  #3 (n) - drop; pearl;a shape that is spherical and small;
  #4 (v) - string together like beads;
  #5 (v) - decorate by sewing beads onto;
  #6 (v) - form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example;
bearing(n) - a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily;
  #2 (n) - armorial bearing; charge; heraldic bearing;heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield;
  #3 (n) - comportment; mien; presence;dignified manner or conduct;
  #4 (n) - carriage; posture;characteristic way of bearing one's body;
  #5 (n) - aim; heading;the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies;
  #6 (n) - relevant relation or interconnection;
  #7 (adj) - withstanding a weight or strain;
beetle(n) - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings;
  #2 (n) - mallet;a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing;
  #3 (v) - beat with a beetle;
  #4 (v) - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle;
  #5 (v) - overhang;be suspended over or hang over;
  #6 (adj sat) - beetling;jutting or overhanging;

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behavioural(adj) - behavioral;of or relating to behavior;
behold(v) - lay eyes on;see with attention;
bellow(n) - bellowing; holla; holler; hollering; hollo; holloa; roar; roaring; yowl;a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal);
  #2 (n) - saul bellow; solomon bellow;United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005);
  #3 (v) - bawl;shout loudly and without restraint;
  #4 (v) - roar;make a loud noise, as of animal;
belongings(n) - holding; property;something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone;
beloved(n) - dear; dearest; honey; love;a beloved person; used as terms of endearment;
  #2 (adj sat) - darling; dear;dearly loved;

berth(n) - billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot;a job in an organization;
  #2 (n) - built in bed; bunk;a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers;
  #3 (n) - moorage; mooring; slip;a place where a craft can be made fast;
  #4 (v) - moor; wharf;come into or dock at a wharf;
  #5 (v) - moor; tie up;secure in or as if in a berth or dock;
  #6 (v) - provide with a berth;
beset(v) - set upon;assail or attack on all sides:;
  #2 (v) - encrust; incrust;decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems);
  #3 (v) - chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; harry; hassle; molest; plague; provoke;annoy continually or chronically;
bestow(v) - confer;present;
  #2 (v) - give as a gift;
  #3 (v) - add; bring; contribute; impart; lend;bestow a quality on;
betray(v) - denounce; give away; grass; rat; shit; shop; snitch; stag; tell on;give away information about somebody;
  #2 (v) - deceive; lead astray;cause someone to believe an untruth;
  #3 (v) - bewray;reveal unintentionally;
  #4 (v) - fail;disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake;
  #5 (v) - sell;deliver to an enemy by treachery;
  #6 (v) - cheat; cheat on; cuckold; wander;be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;
beware(v) - mind;be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to;

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bewilder(v) - amaze; baffle; beat; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
  #2 (v) - bemuse; discombobulate; throw;cause to be confused emotionally;
bias(n) - preconception; prejudice;a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation;
  #2 (n) - diagonal;a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric;
  #3 (v) - predetermine;cause to be biased;
  #4 (v) - influence in an unfair way;
  #5 (adj sat) - slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;
bibliography(n) - a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.);
bicarbonate(n) - hydrogen carbonate;a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate;
bilateral(adj sat) - two-sided;having two sides or parts;
  #2 (adj sat) - affecting or undertaken by two parties;
  #3 (adj sat) - bilaterally symmetric; bilaterally symmetrical; isobilateral;having identical parts on each side of an axis;

bilingual(n) - bilingualist;a person who speaks two languages fluently;
  #2 (adj sat) - using or knowing two languages;
biochemical(adj) - of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms;
biographer(n) - someone who writes an account of a person's life;
biography(n) - life; life history; life story;an account of the series of events making up a person's life;
biological(adj) - of parents and children; related by blood;
  #2 (adj) - biologic;pertaining to biology or to life and living things;

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biologist(n) - life scientist;a scientist who studies living organisms;
biomedical(adj) - relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine;
bionics(n) - application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems);
biosphere(n) - the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist;
biotechnology(n) - bioengineering; ergonomics;the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments;
  #2 (n) - biotech;the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes;

bishop(n) - a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color;
  #2 (n) - port wine mulled with oranges and cloves;
  #3 (n) - a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ;
blackmail(n) - extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information;
  #2 (v) - obtain through threats;
  #3 (v) - blackjack; pressure;exert pressure on someone through threats;
blacksmith(n) - a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil;
blaze(n) - hell;noisy and unrestrained mischief;
  #2 (n) - a light-colored marking;
  #3 (n) - brilliance; glare;a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted;
  #4 (n) - hell;a cause of difficulty and suffering;
  #5 (n) - blazing;a strong flame that burns brightly;
  #6 (v) - indicate by marking trees with blazes;
  #7 (v) - blaze away;shoot rapidly and repeatedly;
  #8 (v) - blaze out;move rapidly and as if blazing;
  #9 (v) - burn brightly and intensely;
  #10 (v) - shine brightly and intensively;
bleach(n) - the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent);
  #2 (n) - the whiteness that results from removing the color from something;
  #3 (n) - blanching agent; bleaching agent; whitener;an agent that makes things white or colorless;
  #4 (v) - make whiter or lighter;
  #5 (v) - bleach out; decolor; decolorise; decolorize; decolour; decolourise; decolourize; discolorise; discolorize; discolourise;remove color from;

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bleak(adj sat) - black; dim;offering little or no hope;
  #2 (adj sat) - bare; barren; desolate; stark;providing no shelter or sustenance;
  #3 (adj sat) - cutting; raw;unpleasantly cold and damp;
blindfold(n) - a cloth used to cover the eyes;
  #2 (v) - cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing;
  #3 (adj sat) - blindfolded;wearing a blindfold;
blockade(n) - encirclement;a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy;
  #2 (n) - prevents access or progress;
  #3 (v) - seal off;impose a blockade on;
  #4 (v) - block off;obstruct access to;
  #5 (v) - bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; stop;render unsuitable for passage;
  #6 (v) - block; embarrass; hinder; obstruct; stymie; stymy;hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of;
blockage(n) - closure; occlusion;the act of blocking;
  #2 (n) - block; closure; occlusion; stop; stoppage;an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
  #3 (n) - obstruction;the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction;
blonde(n) - blond;a light grayish yellow to near white;
  #2 (n) - blond;a person with fair skin and hair;
  #3 (adj) - blond; light-haired;being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes;

bloodstream(n) - blood stream;the blood flowing through the circulatory system;
blossom(n) - bloom; flower;reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts;
  #2 (n) - bloom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime;the period of greatest prosperity or productivity;
  #3 (v) - blossom forth; blossom out; unfold;develop or come to a promising stage;
  #4 (v) - bloom; flower;produce or yield flowers;
blot(n) - smear; smirch; spot; stain;an act that brings discredit to the person who does it;
  #2 (n) - daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot;a blemish made by dirt;
  #3 (v) - blob; fleck; spot;make a spot or mark onto;
  #4 (v) - dry (ink) with blotting paper;
blouse(n) - a top worn by women;
blueprint(n) - photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.;
  #2 (n) - design; pattern;something intended as a guide for making something else;
  #3 (v) - draft; draught;make a blueprint of;

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blunder(n) - bloomer; blooper; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall;an embarrassing mistake;
  #2 (v) - blunder out; blurt; blurt out; ejaculate;utter impulsively;
  #3 (v) - fumble;make one's way clumsily or blindly;
  #4 (v) - boob; drop the ball; goof; sin;commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;
blunt(v) - deaden;make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation;
  #2 (v) - make less sharp;
  #3 (v) - make less intense;
  #4 (v) - dull;make dull or blunt;
  #5 (v) - benumb; dull; numb;make numb or insensitive;
  #6 (adj sat) - crude; stark;devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
  #7 (adj sat) - candid; forthright; frank; free-spoken; outspoken; plainspoken; point-blank; straight-from-the-shoulder;characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion;
  #8 (adj sat) - used of a knife or other blade; not sharp;
  #9 (adj sat) - having a broad or rounded end;
blush(n) - flush;sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty);
  #2 (n) - bloom; flush; rosiness;a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health;
  #3 (v) - crimson; flush; redden;turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;
  #4 (v) - become rosy or reddish;
boarder(n) - a pupil who lives at school during term time;
  #2 (n) - someone who forces their way aboard ship;
  #3 (n) - lodger; roomer;a tenant in someone's house;
bombard(n) - bombardon;a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family;
  #2 (v) - direct high energy particles or radiation against;
  #3 (v) - barrage;address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage;
  #4 (v) - bomb;throw bombs at or attack with bombs;
  #5 (v) - pelt;cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile;

bondage(n) - sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners;
  #2 (n) - slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom;the state of being under the control of another person;
  #3 (n) - the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power;
boom(n) - any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring;
  #2 (n) - microphone boom;a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set;
  #3 (n) - roar; roaring; thunder;a deep prolonged loud noise;
  #4 (n) - bonanza; bunce; godsend; gold rush; gravy; manna from heaven; windfall;a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money);
  #5 (n) - a state of economic prosperity;
  #6 (v) - expand; flourish; thrive;grow vigorously;
  #7 (v) - blast; nail; smash;hit hard;
  #8 (v) - boom out;make a deep hollow sound;
  #9 (v) - din;make a resonant sound, like artillery;
  #10 (v) - thunder;be the case that thunder is being heard;
booster(n) - booster dose; booster shot; recall dose;an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective;
  #2 (n) - booster rocket; booster unit; takeoff booster; takeoff rocket;the first stage of a multistage rocket;
  #3 (n) - booster amplifier; booster station; relay link; relay station; relay transmitter;an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal;
  #4 (n) - lifter; shoplifter;a thief who steals goods that are in a store;
  #5 (n) - plugger; promoter;someone who is an active supporter and advocate;
  #6 (n) - admirer; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter;a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
booth(n) - cubicle; kiosk; stall;small area set off by walls for special use;
  #2 (n) - a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment;
  #3 (n) - a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches;
  #4 (n) - john wilkes booth;United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865);
bootlace(n) - a long lace for fastening boots;

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bosom(n) - embrace;a close affectionate and protective acceptance;
  #2 (n) - cloth that covers the chest or breasts;
  #3 (n) - a person's breast or chest;
  #4 (n) - boob; breast; knocker; tit; titty;either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman;
  #5 (n) - heart;the locus of feelings and intuitions;
  #6 (n) - the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept;
  #7 (v) - embrace; hug; squeeze;squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness;
  #8 (v) - hide in one's bosom;
botanical(n) - a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves);
  #2 (adj) - botanic;of or relating to plants or botany;
botany(n) - phytology;the branch of biology that studies plants;
  #2 (n) - flora; vegetation;all the plant life in a particular region or period;
bough(n) - any of the larger branches of a tree;
boulevard(n) - avenue;a wide street or thoroughfare;

bourgeois(n) - burgher;a member of the middle class;
  #2 (n) - businessperson;a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise;
  #3 (adj sat) - belonging to the middle class;
  #4 (adj sat) - conservative; materialistic;conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;
  #5 (adj sat) - being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class;
boycott(n) - a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies;
  #2 (v) - refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with;
brace(n) - bracing;a structural member used to stiffen a framework;
  #2 (n) - bitstock;a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring;
  #3 (n) - braces; orthodontic braces;an appliance that corrects dental irregularities;
  #4 (n) - a support that steadies or strengthens something else;
  #5 (n) - gallus; suspender;elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural);
  #6 (n) - a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it;
  #7 (n) - either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material;
  #8 (n) - pair;a set of two similar things considered as a unit;
  #9 (n) - couple; couplet; distich; duad; duet; duo; dyad; pair; span; twain; twosome; yoke;two items of the same kind;
  #10 (v) - arouse; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate;cause to be alert and energetic;
  #11 (v) - support by bracing;
  #12 (v) - stabilise; stabilize; steady;support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace;
  #13 (v) - poise;prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult;
bracelet(n) - bangle;jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration;
  #2 (n) - watch bracelet; watchband; watchstrap; wristband;a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist;
bracket(n) - wall bracket;a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf);
  #2 (n) - square bracket;either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material;
  #3 (n) - angle bracket;either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material;
  #4 (n) - a category falling within certain defined limits;
  #5 (v) - classify or group;
  #6 (v) - bracket out;place into brackets;
  #7 (v) - support with brackets;

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braid(n) - braiding; gold braid;trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains;
  #2 (n) - plait; tress; twist;a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair;
  #3 (v) - pleach;form or weave into a braid or braids;
  #4 (v) - decorate with braids or ribbons;
  #5 (v) - lace; plait;make by braiding or interlacing;
brandy(n) - distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice;
breach(n) - a failure to perform some promised act or obligation;
  #2 (n) - break; falling out; rift; rupture; severance;a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
  #3 (n) - an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification);
  #4 (v) - gap;make an opening or gap in;
  #5 (v) - break; go against; infract; offend; transgress; violate;act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
breakthrough(n) - making an important discovery;
  #2 (n) - a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense;
  #3 (n) - discovery; find;a productive insight;
breathtaking(adj sat) - breathless;tending to cause suspension of regular breathing;

bridle(n) - check; curb;the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;
  #2 (n) - headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control;
  #3 (v) - respond to the reins, as of horses;
  #4 (v) - put a bridle on;
  #5 (v) - anger or take offense;
brilliance(n) - grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour;the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand;
  #2 (n) - blaze; glare;a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted;
  #3 (n) - genius;unusual mental ability;
brim(n) - a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat;
  #2 (n) - lip; rim;the top edge of a vessel or other container;
  #3 (v) - fill as much as possible;
  #4 (v) - be completely full;
brisk(v) - brisk up; brisken;become brisk;
  #2 (adj sat) - very active;
  #3 (adj sat) - alert; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; spanking; zippy;quick and energetic;
  #4 (adj sat) - bracing; fresh; refreshful; refreshing; tonic;imparting vitality and energy;
bristle(n) - a stiff hair;
  #2 (n) - a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic;
  #3 (v) - react in an offended or angry manner;
  #4 (v) - stand up; uprise;rise up as in fear;
  #5 (v) - have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles;
  #6 (v) - abound; burst;be in a state of movement or action;

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brittle(n) - toffee; toffy;caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets;
  #2 (adj sat) - brickle; brickly;having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped;
  #3 (adj sat) - unannealed;not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured;
  #4 (adj sat) - lacking warmth and generosity of spirit;
broil(n) - broiling; grilling;cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill);
  #2 (v) - oven broil;cook under a broiler;
  #3 (v) - bake;heat by a natural force;
  #4 (v) - bake;be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun;
broker(n) - agent; factor;a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission;
  #2 (v) - act as a broker;
bronze(n) - a sculpture made of bronze;
  #2 (n) - an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin;
  #3 (v) - tan;get a tan, from wind or sun;
  #4 (v) - give the color and appearance of bronze to something;
  #5 (adj sat) - bronzy;of the color of bronze;
  #6 (adj sat) - made from or consisting of bronze;
brood(n) - the young of an animal cared for at one time;
  #2 (v) - cover; hatch; incubate;sit on (eggs);
  #3 (v) - dwell;think moodily or anxiously about something;
  #4 (v) - grizzle; stew;be in a huff; be silent or sullen;
  #5 (v) - pout; sulk;be in a huff and display one's displeasure;
  #6 (v) - bulk large; hover; loom;hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;

brook(n) - creek;a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);
  #2 (v) - abide; bear; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate;put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
broom(n) - a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle;
  #2 (n) - calluna vulgaris; heather; ling; scots heather;common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere;
  #3 (n) - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers;
  #4 (v) - finish with a broom;
  #5 (v) - sweep;sweep with a broom or as if with a broom;
bruise(n) - contusion;an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration;
  #2 (v) - damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure;
  #3 (v) - break up into small pieces for food preparation;
  #4 (v) - contuse;injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of;
  #5 (v) - hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound;hurt the feelings of;
brutality(n) - barbarism; barbarity; savagery;a brutal barbarous savage act;
  #2 (n) - ferociousness; savagery; viciousness;the trait of extreme cruelty;
buddhism(n) - the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth;
  #2 (n) - a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha;

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buddhist(n) - one who follows the teachings of Buddha;
  #2 (adj) - buddhistic;of or relating to or supporting Buddhism;
budget(n) - a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them;
  #2 (n) - a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose;
  #3 (v) - make a budget;
buffalo(n) - old world buffalo;any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo;
  #2 (n) - american bison; american buffalo; bison bison;large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains;
  #3 (n) - meat from an American bison;
  #4 (n) - a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls);
  #5 (v) - intimidate or overawe;
bugle(n) - a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares;
  #2 (n) - a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration;
  #3 (n) - bugleweed;any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover;
  #4 (v) - play on a bugle;
bull(n) - a serious and ludicrous blunder;
  #2 (n) - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle;
  #3 (n) - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle;
  #4 (n) - bullshit; crap; dogshit; horseshit; irish bull; shit;obscene words for unacceptable behavior;
  #5 (n) - papal bull;a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla);
  #6 (n) - bull's eye;the center of a target;
  #7 (n) - taurus; taurus the bull;the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20;
  #8 (n) - taurus;a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus;
  #9 (n) - bruiser; samson; strapper;a large and strong and heavyset man;
  #10 (n) - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later;
  #11 (n) - cop; copper; fuzz; pig;uncomplimentary terms for a policeman;
  #12 (v) - advance in price;
  #13 (v) - bullshit; fake; talk through one's hat;speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths;
  #14 (v) - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying;
  #15 (v) - bull through;push or force;

bump(n) - blow;an impact (as from a collision);
  #2 (n) - bulge; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling;something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings;
  #3 (n) - a lump on the body caused by a blow;
  #4 (v) - knock;knock against with force or violence;
  #5 (v) - dislodge;remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;
  #6 (v) - dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward;
  #7 (v) - chance; encounter; find; happen;come upon, as if by accident; meet with;
  #8 (v) - break; demote; kick downstairs; relegate;assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;
buoy(n) - bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards;
  #2 (v) - mark with a buoy;
  #3 (v) - buoy up;keep afloat;
  #4 (v) - float on the surface of water;
buoyancy(n) - irrepressibility;irrepressible liveliness and good spirit;
  #2 (n) - the tendency to float in water or other liquid;
  #3 (n) - airiness;the property of something weightless and insubstantial;
  #4 (n) - perkiness;cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface;
buoyant(adj sat) - chirpy; perky;characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness;
  #2 (adj sat) - floaty;tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas;
bureaucracy(n) - any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape;
  #2 (n) - a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials;
  #3 (n) - bureaucratism;nonelective government officials;

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burglar(n) - a thief who enters a building with intent to steal;
burial(n) - burying;concealing something under the ground;
  #2 (n) - entombment; inhumation; interment; sepulture;the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave;
bushel(n) - a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches;
  #2 (n) - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks;
  #3 (v) - doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on;restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;
bustle(n) - ado; flurry; fuss; hustle; stir;a rapid active commotion;
  #2 (n) - a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt;
  #3 (v) - bustle about; hustle;move or cause to move energetically or busily;
butcher(n) - blunderer; botcher; bumbler; bungler; fuckup; fumbler; sad sack; stumbler;someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence;
  #2 (n) - slaughterer;a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market;
  #3 (n) - a brutal indiscriminate murderer;
  #4 (n) - meatman;a retailer of meat;
  #5 (v) - slaughter;kill (animals) usually for food consumption;

butterfly(n) - butterfly stroke;a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down;
  #2 (n) - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings;
  #3 (v) - chat up; coquet; coquette; dally; flirt; mash; philander; romance;talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
  #4 (v) - cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking;
  #5 (v) - flutter like a butterfly;
buzz(n) - a confusion of activity and gossip;
  #2 (n) - bombilation; bombination;sound of rapid vibration;
  #3 (v) - call with a buzzer;
  #4 (v) - fly low;
  #5 (v) - bombilate; bombinate;make a buzzing sound;
  #6 (v) - hum; seethe;be noisy with activity;
bypass(n) - beltway; ring road; ringway;a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center;
  #2 (n) - electrical shunt; shunt;a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current;
  #3 (n) - a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part);
  #4 (v) - get around; go around; short-circuit;avoid something unpleasant or laborious;
byproduct(n) - by-product; spin-off;a product made during the manufacture of something else;
  #2 (n) - by-product;a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence;
cadre(n) - a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion;
  #2 (n) - cell;a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement;

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cafeteria(n) - a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier;
calcium(n) - atomic number 20; ca;a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals;
calculus(n) - infinitesimal calculus;the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions;
  #2 (n) - concretion;a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body;
  #3 (n) - tartar; tophus;an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums;
calibration(n) - standardisation; standardization;the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument;
cancellation(n) - the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement;
  #2 (n) - the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void;

candy(n) - confect;a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts;
  #2 (v) - glaze; sugarcoat;coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze;
cane(n) - a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment;
  #2 (n) - a stick that people can lean on to help them walk;
  #3 (n) - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane;
  #4 (v) - flog; lambast; lambaste;beat with a cane;
cannon(n) - carom;a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other;
  #2 (n) - shank;lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals;
  #3 (n) - a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels;
  #4 (n) - heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane;
  #5 (n) - a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm;
  #6 (n) - heavy gun fired from a tank;
  #7 (v) - fire a cannon;
  #8 (v) - make a cannon;
canoe(n) - small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle;
  #2 (v) - travel by canoe;
canteen(n) - a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers;
  #2 (n) - restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat;
  #3 (n) - a recreation room in an institution;
  #4 (n) - mobile canteen;a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen;
  #5 (n) - sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.;

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canvas(n) - canvass;a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents);
  #2 (n) - canvass;the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete;
  #3 (n) - canvass;an oil painting on canvas fabric;
  #4 (n) - canvas tent; canvass;a tent made of canvas fabric;
  #5 (n) - canvass; sail; sheet;a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel;
  #6 (n) - canvass;the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account;
  #7 (v) - analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study;consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning;
  #8 (v) - cover with canvas;
  #9 (v) - canvass; poll;get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions;
  #10 (v) - canvass;solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign;
canyon(n) - canon;a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall;
capability(n) - capableness;the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally;
  #2 (n) - capableness; potentiality;an aptitude that may be developed;
  #3 (n) - capacity;the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
capitol(n) - capitol building;the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet;
  #2 (n) - a building occupied by a state legislature;
capsule(n) - a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside;
  #2 (n) - a small container;
  #3 (n) - ejection seat; ejector seat;a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute;
  #4 (n) - space capsule;a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space;
  #5 (n) - a structure that encloses a body part;
  #6 (n) - abridgement; abridgment; condensation;a shortened version of a written work;
  #7 (n) - a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses;
  #8 (v) - capsulise; capsulize; encapsulate;put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume;
  #9 (v) - capsulate; capsulise; capsulize;enclose in a capsule;

captive(n) - an animal that is confined;
  #2 (n) - a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion;
  #3 (n) - prisoner;a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war;
  #4 (adj sat) - absorbed; engrossed; enwrapped; intent; wrapped;giving or marked by complete attention to;
  #5 (adj sat) - confined; imprisoned; jailed;being in captivity;
captivity(n) - enslavement;the state of being a slave;
  #2 (n) - immurement; imprisonment; incarceration;the state of being imprisoned;
cardinal(n) - cardinal grosbeak; cardinalis cardinalis; redbird; richmondena cardinalis;crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male;
  #2 (n) - carmine;a variable color averaging a vivid red;
  #3 (n) - one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes;
  #4 (n) - cardinal number;the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order;
  #5 (adj sat) - central; fundamental; key; primal;serving as an essential component;
  #6 (adj) - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order;
carol(n) - a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ);
  #2 (n) - christmas carol;joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ;
  #3 (v) - sing carols;
carrot(n) - promise of reward as in;
  #2 (n) - orange root; important source of carotene;
  #3 (n) - cultivated carrot; daucus carota sativa;perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions;
  #4 (n) - deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant;

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carton(n) - a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top;
  #2 (n) - cartonful;the quantity contained in a carton;
cartoon(n) - animated cartoon; toon;a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence;
  #2 (n) - sketch;a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine;
  #3 (v) - draw cartoons of;
cartridge(n) - ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun;
  #2 (n) - pickup;an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable;
  #3 (n) - a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment;
  #4 (n) - magazine;a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required;
carve(v) - cut up;cut to pieces;
  #2 (v) - form by carving;
  #3 (v) - chip at;engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface;
cascade(n) - shower;a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower;
  #2 (n) - a succession of stages or operations or processes or units;
  #3 (n) - a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls;
  #4 (v) - arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible;
  #5 (v) - cascade down;rush down in big quantities, like a cascade;

cashier(n) - a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant);
  #2 (n) - bank clerk; teller;an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money;
  #3 (v) - discharge with dishonor, as in the army;
  #4 (v) - discard or do away with;
casino(n) - cassino;a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand;
  #2 (n) - gambling casino;a public building for gambling and entertainment;
casualty(n) - a decrease of military personnel or equipment;
  #2 (n) - fatal accident;an accident that causes someone to die;
  #3 (n) - injured party;someone injured or killed in an accident;
  #4 (n) - someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement;
catalyst(n) - something that causes an important event to happen;
  #2 (n) - accelerator;a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected;
catastrophic(adj sat) - ruinous;extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;

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category(n) - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme;
  #2 (n) - class; family;a collection of things sharing a common attribute;
cater(v) - supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets;
  #2 (v) - ply; provide; supply;give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;
caterpillar(n) - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth;
  #2 (n) - cat;a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work;
cathedral(n) - any large and important church;
  #2 (n) - duomo;the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne;
cathode(n) - a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device;
  #2 (n) - the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current;

catholic(n) - a member of a Catholic church;
  #2 (adj sat) - free from provincial prejudices or attachments;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to or supporting Catholicism;
causality(n) - the relation between causes and effects;
cautionary(adj sat) - admonitory; exemplary; monitory; warning;serving to warn;
  #2 (adj sat) - prophylactic;warding off;
cavity(n) - bodily cavity; cavum;a natural hollow or sinus within the body;
  #2 (n) - pit;a sizeable hole (usually in the ground);
  #3 (n) - caries; dental caries; tooth decay;soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth;
  #4 (n) - enclosed space;space that is surrounded by something;
celebration(n) - festivity;any joyous diversion;
  #2 (n) - solemnisation; solemnization;the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual;
  #3 (n) - jubilation;a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event;

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cellar(n) - basement;the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage;
  #2 (n) - wine cellar;storage space where wines are stored;
  #3 (n) - root cellar;an excavation where root vegetables are stored;
celsius(n) - anders celsius;Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744);
censor(n) - a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable;
  #2 (n) - someone who censures or condemns;
  #3 (v) - subject to political, religious, or moral censorship;
  #4 (v) - ban;forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper);
census(n) - nose count; nosecount;a periodic count of the population;
  #2 (v) - conduct a census;
ceramic(n) - an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to or made from a ceramic;

ceramics(n) - the art of making and decorating pottery;
cereal(n) - a breakfast food prepared from grain;
  #2 (n) - food grain; grain;foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses;
  #3 (n) - cereal grass;grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet;
  #4 (adj) - made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it;
certify(v) - attest; demonstrate; evidence; manifest;provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes;
  #2 (v) - declare legally insane;
  #3 (v) - guarantee payment on; of checks;
  #4 (v) - licence; license;authorize officially;
  #5 (v) - endorse; indorse;guarantee as meeting a certain standard;
cessation(n) - surcease;a stopping;
champagne(n) - bubbly;a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there;
  #2 (n) - champagne-ardenne;a region of northeastern France;

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chaos(n) - a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions;
  #2 (n) - the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe;
  #3 (n) - the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos;
  #4 (n) - bedlam; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness;a state of extreme confusion and disorder;
chaotic(adj sat) - helter-skelter;lacking a visible order or organization;
  #2 (adj sat) - disorderly;completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions;
characterize(v) - characterise; qualify;describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of;
  #2 (v) - characterise;be characteristic of;
charcoal(n) - fusain;a stick of black carbon material used for drawing;
  #2 (n) - a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material;
  #3 (n) - charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey;a very dark grey color;
  #4 (n) - wood coal;a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air;
  #5 (v) - draw, trace, or represent with charcoal;
  #6 (adj sat) - charcoal-gray; charcoal-grey;of a very dark grey;
charity(n) - an activity or gift that benefits the public at large;
  #2 (n) - brotherly love;a kindly and lenient attitude toward people;
  #3 (n) - an institution set up to provide help to the needy;
  #4 (n) - a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals);
  #5 (n) - greek valerian; jacob's ladder; polemonium caeruleum; polemonium van-bruntiae; polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae;pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers;

charming(adj sat) - magic; magical; sorcerous; witching; wizard; wizardly;possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers;
  #2 (adj sat) - pleasing or delighting;
charter(n) - a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation;
  #2 (n) - a contract to hire or lease transportation;
  #3 (v) - engage; hire; lease; rent; take;engage for service under a term of contract;
  #4 (v) - grant a charter to;
  #5 (v) - hire; lease; rent;hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services;
chat(n) - old world chat;songbirds having a chattering call;
  #2 (n) - new world chat;birds having a chattering call;
  #3 (n) - confab; confabulation; schmoose; schmooze;an informal conversation;
  #4 (v) - chaffer; chatter; chew the fat; chitchat; chit-chat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit;talk socially without exchanging too much information;
chatter(n) - cackle; yack; yak; yakety-yak;noisy talk;
  #2 (n) - chattering;the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys);
  #3 (n) - chattering;the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine;
  #4 (v) - blab; blabber; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle;speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly;
  #5 (v) - make noise as if chattering away;
  #6 (v) - chaffer; chat; chew the fat; chitchat; chit-chat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit;talk socially without exchanging too much information;
  #7 (v) - cut unevenly with a chattering tool;
  #8 (v) - click;click repeatedly or uncontrollably;
cheery(adj sat) - gay; sunny;bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer;

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cherish(v) - care for; hold dear; treasure;be fond of; be attached to;
cherry(n) - cerise; cherry red;a red the color of ripe cherries;
  #2 (n) - a red fruit with a single hard stone;
  #3 (n) - cherry tree;any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood;
  #4 (n) - wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry;
  #5 (adj sat) - blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet;of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;
chestnut(n) - a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse;
  #2 (n) - a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg;
  #3 (n) - the brown color of chestnuts;
  #4 (n) - edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea;
  #5 (n) - chestnut tree;any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur;
  #6 (n) - wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea;
  #7 (adj sat) - of a golden brown to reddish brown color;
chick(n) - biddy;young bird especially of domestic fowl;
  #2 (n) - bird; dame; doll; skirt; wench;informal terms for a (young) woman;
chilly(n) - chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli;very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency;
  #2 (adj sat) - not characterized by emotion;
  #3 (adj sat) - lacking warmth of feeling;
  #4 (adj sat) - parky;appreciably or disagreeably cold;

chimpanzee(n) - chimp; pan troglodytes;intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests;
chip(n) - chipping; splintering;the act of chipping something;
  #2 (n) - chip shot;a low running approach shot;
  #3 (n) - micro chip; microchip; microprocessor chip; silicon chip;electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit;
  #4 (n) - poker chip;a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling;
  #5 (n) - a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line;
  #6 (n) - check;a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something;
  #7 (n) - crisp; potato chip; saratoga chip;a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat;
  #8 (n) - bit; flake; fleck; scrap;a small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
  #9 (n) - buffalo chip; cow chip; cow dung;a piece of dried bovine dung;
  #10 (v) - nick;cut a nick into;
  #11 (v) - break off; cut off; knap;break a small piece off from;
  #12 (v) - break away; break off; chip off; come off;break off (a piece from a whole);
  #13 (v) - form by chipping;
  #14 (v) - play a chip shot;
choir(n) - the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave;
  #2 (n) - a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony;
  #3 (n) - consort;a family of similar musical instrument playing together;
  #4 (v) - chorus;sing in a choir;
cholesterol(n) - cholesterin;an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues;
chord(n) - a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together;
  #2 (n) - a straight line connecting two points on a curve;
  #3 (v) - harmonise; harmonize;bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing;
  #4 (v) - play chords on (a string instrument);

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chore(n) - job; task;a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
chorus(n) - refrain;the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers;
  #2 (n) - any utterance produced simultaneously by a group;
  #3 (n) - a group of people assembled to sing together;
  #4 (n) - greek chorus;a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play;
  #5 (n) - chorus line;a body of dancers or singers who perform together;
  #6 (v) - utter in unison;
  #7 (v) - choir;sing in a choir;
chromium(n) - atomic number 24; cr;a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing;
chuckle(n) - chortle;a soft partly suppressed laugh;
  #2 (v) - chortle; laugh softly;laugh quietly or with restraint;
cigar(n) - a roll of tobacco for smoking;

circulation(n) - the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area;
  #2 (n) - the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines);
  #3 (n) - free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant);
  #4 (n) - movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels;
  #5 (n) - number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold;
  #6 (n) - the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period;
circus(n) - a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals;
  #2 (n) - carnival;a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment;
  #3 (n) - genus circus;a genus of haws comprising the harriers;
  #4 (n) - an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent;
  #5 (n) - an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games;
  #6 (n) - a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals;
cite(n) - acknowledgment; citation; credit; mention; quotation; reference;a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage;
  #2 (v) - summon; summons;call in an official matter, such as to attend court;
  #3 (v) - abduce; adduce;advance evidence for;
  #4 (v) - mention;commend;
  #5 (v) - quote;repeat a passage from;
  #6 (v) - quote;refer to for illustration or proof;
  #7 (v) - advert; bring up; mention; name; refer;make reference to;
  #8 (v) - reference;refer to;
civic(adj) - civil;of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating or belonging to a city;
civilian(n) - a nonmilitary citizen;
  #2 (adj) - associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military;

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civility(n) - politeness;the act of showing regard for others;
  #2 (n) - formal or perfunctory politeness;
clad(adj) - clothed;wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination;
  #2 (adj sat) - having an outer covering especially of thin metal;
clam(n) - burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness;
  #2 (n) - flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams;
  #3 (n) - buck; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill;a piece of paper money worth one dollar;
  #4 (v) - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean;
clamp(n) - clinch;a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together;
  #2 (v) - impose or inflict forcefully;
  #3 (v) - fasten or fix with a clamp;
clang(n) - clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash;a loud resonant repeating noise;
  #2 (v) - clangor;make a loud noise;

clash(n) - brush; encounter; skirmish;a minor short-term fight;
  #2 (n) - clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; crash;a loud resonant repeating noise;
  #3 (n) - friction;a state of conflict between persons;
  #4 (n) - a state of conflict between colors;
  #5 (v) - disagree violently;
  #6 (v) - collide;crash together with violent impact;
  #7 (v) - collide; jar;be incompatible; be or come into conflict;
clasp(n) - clench; clutch; clutches; grasp; grip; hold;the act of grasping;
  #2 (n) - a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together;
  #3 (v) - hold firmly and tightly;
  #4 (v) - grasp firmly;
  #5 (v) - buckle;fasten with a buckle or buckles;
  #6 (v) - brooch;fasten with or as if with a brooch;
classic(n) - a creation of the highest excellence;
  #2 (n) - an artist who has created classic works;
  #3 (adj) - classical;of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture;
  #4 (adj sat) - classical; graeco-roman; greco-roman; hellenic;of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures;
  #5 (adj sat) - authoritative; classical; definitive;of recognized authority or excellence;
clatter(n) - a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement);
  #2 (v) - brattle; clack;make a rattling sound;
clause(n) - an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence;
  #2 (n) - article;a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will);

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cleanliness(n) - diligence in keeping clean;
  #2 (n) - the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections;
cleanse(v) - clean;clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing;
  #2 (v) - purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins;
clearance(n) - permission to proceed;
  #2 (n) - the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them;
  #3 (n) - headroom; headway;vertical space available to allow easy passage under something;
clearing(n) - clarification;the act of removing solid particles from a liquid;
  #2 (n) - the act of freeing from suspicion;
  #3 (n) - glade;a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area;
clench(n) - clasp; clutch; clutches; grasp; grip; hold;the act of grasping;
  #2 (n) - clinch;a small slip noose made with seizing;
  #3 (v) - squeeze together tightly;
  #4 (v) - clinch;hold in a tight grasp;

clergy(n) - in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity);
client(n) - guest; node;any computer that is hooked up to a computer network;
  #2 (n) - customer;someone who pays for goods or services;
  #3 (n) - a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer;
climax(n) - coming; orgasm; sexual climax;the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse;
  #2 (n) - culmination;the decisive moment in a novel or play;
  #3 (n) - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness;
  #4 (n) - flood tide;the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding;
  #5 (n) - the most severe stage of a disease;
  #6 (v) - culminate;end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage;
cling(n) - clingstone;fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit;
  #2 (v) - hang;hold on tightly or tenaciously;
  #3 (v) - adhere; cleave; cohere; stick;come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation;
  #4 (v) - to remain emotionally or intellectually attached;
clinic(n) - a healthcare facility for outpatient care;
  #2 (n) - meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity;
  #3 (n) - a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists;

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clinical(adj sat) - scientifically detached; unemotional;
  #2 (adj) - relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients;
clip(n) - a sharp slanting blow;
  #2 (n) - clipping; snip;the act of clipping or snipping;
  #3 (n) - cartridge clip; cartridge holder; magazine;a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun;
  #4 (n) - any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together;
  #5 (n) - an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress;
  #6 (n) - time;an instance or single occasion for some event;
  #7 (v) - curtail; cut short;terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
  #8 (v) - crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim;cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
  #9 (v) - attach with a clip;
  #10 (v) - nip; nip off; snip; snip off;sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
  #11 (v) - jog; trot;run at a moderately swift pace;
cloak(n) - a loose outer garment;
  #2 (n) - anything that covers or conceals;
  #3 (v) - cover with or as if with a cloak;
  #4 (v) - clothe; drape; robe;cover as if with clothing;
  #5 (v) - dissemble; mask;hide under a false appearance;
clockwise(adj) - in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock;
  #2 (adv) - in the direction that the hands of a clock move;
clone(n) - knockoff;an unauthorized copy or imitation;
  #2 (n) - clon;a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction;
  #3 (n) - dead ringer; ringer;a person who is almost identical to another;
  #4 (v) - make multiple identical copies of;

closet(n) - a small private room for study or prayer;
  #2 (n) - cupboard;a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space;
  #3 (n) - press; wardrobe;a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes;
  #4 (n) - loo; w.c.; water closet;a toilet in Britain;
  #5 (v) - confine to a small space, as for intensive work;
clot(n) - coagulum;a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid;
  #2 (v) - clog;coalesce or unite in a mass;
  #3 (v) - clabber; curdle;turn into curds;
  #4 (v) - coagulate;change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state;
  #5 (v) - coagulate;cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state;
clotting(n) - coagulation; curdling;the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid;
cluster(n) - bunch; clump; clustering;a grouping of a number of similar things;
  #2 (v) - bunch; bunch up; bundle; clump;gather or cause to gather into a cluster;
  #3 (v) - clump; constellate; flock;come together as in a cluster or flock;
clutch(n) - clasp; clench; clutches; grasp; grip; hold;the act of grasping;
  #2 (n) - a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism;
  #3 (n) - clutch pedal;a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism;
  #4 (n) - clutch bag;a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand;
  #5 (n) - batch;a collection of things or persons to be handled together;
  #6 (n) - a number of birds hatched at the same time;
  #7 (n) - a tense critical situation;
  #8 (v) - get hold of; seize;affect;
  #9 (v) - prehend; seize;take hold of; grab;
  #10 (v) - cling to; hold close; hold tight;hold firmly, usually with one's hands;

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coastal(adj) - located on or near or bordering on a coast;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to a coast;
cocktail(n) - an appetizer served as a first course at a meal;
  #2 (n) - a short mixed drink;
cocoa(n) - powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed;
  #2 (n) - chocolate; drinking chocolate; hot chocolate;a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot;
coconut(n) - cocoanut;large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk;
  #2 (n) - coconut meat;the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries;
  #3 (n) - coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut palm; coconut tree; cocos nucifera;tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics;
coefficient(n) - a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic;

coffin(n) - casket;box in which a corpse is buried or cremated;
  #2 (v) - place into a coffin;
cognitive(adj) - of or being or relating to or involving cognition;
cohere(v) - adhere; cleave; cling; stick;come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation;
  #2 (v) - have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results;
  #3 (v) - cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole;
coherence(n) - coherency;logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts;
  #2 (n) - coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness;the state of cohering or sticking together;
coherent(adj sat) - tenacious;sticking together;
  #2 (adj) - of waves having a constant phase relation;
  #3 (adj) - consistent; logical; ordered;marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts;
  #4 (adj sat) - logical; lucid;capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner;

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cohesion(n) - the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid;
  #2 (n) - the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals);
  #3 (n) - coherence; coherency; cohesiveness;the state of cohering or sticking together;
cohesive(adj sat) - causing cohesion;
  #2 (adj sat) - cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated;
coincide(v) - concur;happen simultaneously;
  #2 (v) - be the same;
  #3 (v) - cooccur; co-occur;go with, fall together;
coincidence(n) - concurrence; conjunction; co-occurrence;the temporal property of two things happening at the same time;
  #2 (n) - the quality of occupying the same position or area in space;
  #3 (n) - happenstance;an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental;
coke(n) - blow; c; nose candy; snow;street names for cocaine;
  #2 (n) - coca cola;Coca Cola is a trademarked cola;
  #3 (n) - carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal;
  #4 (v) - become coke;

collaboration(n) - coaction;act of working jointly;
  #2 (n) - collaborationism; quislingism;act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country;
colloquial(adj sat) - conversational;characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation;
colonel(n) - a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general;
colonial(n) - a resident of a colony;
  #2 (adj sat) - compound;composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony;
  #4 (adj) - of animals who live in colonies, such as ants;
colonist(n) - settler;a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country;

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colourful(adj) - colorful;having striking color;
  #2 (adj) - colorful;striking in variety and interest;
combat(n) - armed combat;an engagement fought between two military forces;
  #2 (n) - fight; fighting; scrap;the act of fighting; any contest or struggle;
  #3 (v) - battle;battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
combustible(n) - combustible material;a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power;
  #2 (adj) - capable of igniting and burning;
comedy(n) - clowning; drollery; funniness;a comic incident or series of incidents;
  #2 (n) - light and humorous drama with a happy ending;
comet(n) - a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit;

comic(n) - comedian;a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts;
  #2 (adj sat) - amusing; comical; funny; laughable; mirthful; risible;arousing or provoking laughter;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of comedy;
commence(v) - begin; get; get down; set about; set out; start; start out;take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;
  #2 (v) - begin; lead off; start;set in motion, cause to start;
  #3 (v) - embark on; start; start up;get off the ground;
commend(v) - express approval of;
  #2 (v) - remember;mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship;
  #3 (v) - recommend;express a good opinion of;
  #4 (v) - give to in charge;
  #5 (v) - present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence;
commodity(n) - good; trade good;articles of commerce;
commonsense(adj sat) - commonsensible; commonsensical;exhibiting native good judgment;

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commonwealth(n) - body politic; country; land; nation; res publica; state;a politically organized body of people under a single government;
  #2 (n) - democracy; republic;a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them;
  #3 (n) - a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another;
  #4 (n) - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico);
communal(adj sat) - for or by a group rather than individuals;
  #2 (adj) - relating to a small administrative district or community;
communicator(n) - a person who communicates with others;
comparable(adj) - able to be compared or worthy of comparison;
  #2 (adj sat) - corresponding; like;conforming in every respect;
compartment(n) - a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area;
  #2 (n) - a space into which an area is subdivided;

compassion(n) - pity;the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it;
  #2 (n) - compassionateness;a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering;
compensate(v) - recompense; remunerate;make payment to; compensate;
  #2 (v) - indemnify; recompense; repair;make amends for; pay compensation for;
  #3 (v) - make up; pay; pay off;do or give something to somebody in return;
  #4 (v) - correct; redress; right;make reparations or amends for;
  #5 (v) - correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up;adjust for;
  #6 (v) - cover; overcompensate;make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities;
compensation(n) - recompense;the act of compensating for service or loss or injury;
  #2 (n) - something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury);
  #3 (n) - a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors;
competence(n) - competency;the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually;
competitive(adj sat) - militant;showing a fighting disposition;
  #2 (adj sat) - free-enterprise; private-enterprise;subscribing to capitalistic competition;
  #3 (adj) - competitory;involving competition or competitiveness;

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complement(n) - accompaniment;something added to complete or embellish or make perfect;
  #2 (n) - either of two parts that mutually complete each other;
  #3 (n) - a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction;
  #4 (n) - full complement;number needed to make up a whole force;
  #5 (n) - a complete number or quantity;
  #6 (n) - one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response;
  #7 (v) - make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to;
complexion(n) - a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament;
  #2 (n) - texture and appearance of the skin of the face;
  #3 (n) - skin color; skin colour;the coloring of a person's face;
  #4 (n) - a point of view or general attitude or inclination;
  #5 (n) - a combination that results from coupling or interlinking;
  #6 (v) - give a certain color to;
complexity(n) - complexness;the quality of being intricate and compounded;
compliment(n) - a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration;
  #2 (v) - congratulate;say something to someone that expresses praise;
  #3 (v) - express respect or esteem for;
comply(v) - abide by; follow;act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes;

composer(n) - someone who composes music as a profession;
composite(n) - complex;a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;
  #2 (n) - composite plant;considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers;
  #3 (adj sat) - consisting of separate interconnected parts;
  #4 (adj) - of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae;
compulsion(n) - coercion;using force to cause something to occur;
  #2 (n) - irresistible impulse;an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid;
  #3 (n) - obsession;an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will;
computational(adj) - of or involving computation or computers;
conceit(n) - conceitedness; vanity;the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride;
  #2 (n) - an artistic device or effect;
  #3 (n) - a witty or ingenious turn of phrase;
  #4 (n) - an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things;
  #5 (n) - amour propre; self-love; vanity;feelings of excessive pride;

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conceive(v) - become pregnant; undergo conception;
  #2 (v) - believe; consider; think;judge or regard; look upon; judge;
  #3 (v) - conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate;have the idea for;
conception(n) - the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon;
  #2 (n) - design; excogitation; innovation; invention;the creation of something in the mind;
  #3 (n) - concept; construct;an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances;
  #4 (n) - creation;the event that occurred at the beginning of something;
conceptual(adj sat) - being or characterized by concepts or their formation;
concession(n) - grant;a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business;
  #2 (n) - conceding; yielding;the act of conceding or yielding;
  #3 (n) - a point conceded or yielded;
concise(adj) - expressing much in few words;

conclusive(adj) - forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question;
concord(n) - lexington; lexington and concord;the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775);
  #2 (n) - concordance; harmony;agreement of opinions;
  #3 (n) - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought;
  #4 (n) - capital of new hampshire;capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river;
  #5 (n) - agreement;the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations;
  #6 (n) - concordance; harmony;a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole;
  #7 (v) - agree; concur; hold;be in accord; be in agreement;
  #8 (v) - arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance;
  #9 (v) - arrange by concord or agreement;
  #10 (v) - accord; agree; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize;go together;
condensation(n) - condensing;the act of increasing the density of something;
  #2 (n) - an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams;
  #3 (n) - abridgement; abridgment; capsule;a shortened version of a written work;
  #4 (n) - compression; contraction;the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together;
  #5 (n) - condensate;atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold;
  #6 (n) - the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state;
condenser(n) - capacitance; capacitor; electrical condenser;an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge;
  #2 (n) - optical condenser;lens used to concentrate light on an object;
  #3 (n) - a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat;
  #4 (n) - an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid;
conditional(adj) - imposing or depending on or containing a condition;
  #2 (adj sat) - qualified by reservations;

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conductivity(n) - conduction;the transmission of heat or electricity or sound;
cone(n) - any cone-shaped artifact;
  #2 (n) - cone cell; retinal cone;a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color;
  #3 (n) - strobile; strobilus;cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts;
  #4 (n) - cone shape; conoid;a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point;
  #5 (v) - make cone-shaped;
confederation(n) - alliance;the act of forming an alliance or confederation;
  #2 (n) - confederacy; federation;a union of political organizations;
  #3 (n) - alliance;the state of being allied or confederated;
confer(v) - confab; confabulate; consult;have a conference in order to talk something over;
  #2 (v) - bestow;present;
confide(v) - reveal in private; tell confidentially;
  #2 (v) - commit; entrust; intrust; trust;confer a trust upon;

configuration(n) - conformation; contour; form; shape;any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
  #2 (n) - constellation;an arrangement of parts or elements;
confirmation(n) - a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church;
  #2 (n) - a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism;
  #3 (n) - check; substantiation; verification;additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct;
  #4 (n) - information that confirms or verifies;
  #5 (n) - ratification;making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it;
conform(v) - adapt; adjust;adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;
  #2 (v) - be similar, be in line with;
conformation(n) - abidance; compliance; conformity;acting according to certain accepted standards;
  #2 (n) - configuration; contour; form; shape;any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
  #3 (n) - a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing;
confront(v) - face; face up;deal with (something unpleasant) head on;
  #2 (v) - face; present;present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize;
  #3 (v) - face;oppose, as in hostility or a competition;
  #4 (v) - be face to face with;

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congestion(n) - over-crowding;excessive crowding;
  #2 (n) - excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part;
consensus(n) - agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole;
consistency(n) - consistence;a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts;
  #2 (n) - an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another;
  #3 (n) - body; consistence; eubstance;the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
  #4 (n) - logical coherence and accordance with the facts;
console(n) - cabinet;housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television;
  #2 (n) - an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture);
  #3 (n) - a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system);
  #4 (n) - console table;a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall;
  #5 (v) - comfort; solace; soothe;give moral or emotional strength to;
consolidation(n) - integration;the act of combining into an integral whole;
  #2 (n) - combining into a solid mass;
  #3 (n) - something that has consolidated into a compact mass;

conspicuous(adj) - obvious to the eye or mind;
  #2 (adj sat) - blatant; blazing;without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
conspiracy(n) - cabal;a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot);
  #2 (n) - confederacy;a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act;
  #3 (n) - confederacy;a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose;
constituent(n) - component; element;an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system;
  #2 (n) - component; element; factor; ingredient;an abstract part of something;
  #3 (n) - grammatical constituent;a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction;
  #4 (n) - a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes;
  #5 (n) - component; component part; part; portion;something determined in relation to something that includes it;
  #6 (adj sat) - constitutional; constitutive; organic;constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup);
constraint(n) - the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others;
  #2 (n) - restraint;a device that retards something's motion;
  #3 (n) - restraint;the state of being physically constrained;
constructive(adj) - constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development;
  #2 (adj sat) - emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good;

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consul(n) - a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country;
consultant(n) - adviser; advisor;an expert who gives advice;
consultation(n) - reference;the act of referring or consulting;
  #2 (n) - a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question;
  #3 (n) - audience; interview;a conference (usually with someone important);
consultative(adj sat) - advisory; consultatory; consultive;giving advice;
consumer(n) - a person who uses goods or services;

contaminate(v) - foul; pollute;make impure;
  #2 (v) - make radioactive by adding radioactive material;
contamination(n) - pollution;the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors;
  #2 (n) - taint;the state of being contaminated;
  #3 (n) - contaminant;a substance that contaminates;
contempt(n) - a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body;
  #2 (n) - disrespect;a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous;
  #3 (n) - scorn;open disrespect for a person or thing;
  #4 (n) - despite; disdain; scorn;lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
contend(v) - postulate;maintain or assert;
  #2 (v) - argue; debate; fence;have an argument about something;
  #3 (v) - contest; repugn;to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation;
  #4 (v) - compete; vie;compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others;
  #5 (v) - fight; struggle;be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;
  #6 (v) - cope; deal; get by; grapple; make do; make out; manage;come to terms with;
context(n) - context of use; linguistic context;discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation;
  #2 (n) - circumstance; setting;the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event;

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contractor(n) - contractile organ;a bodily organ that contracts;
  #2 (n) - someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things;
  #3 (n) - a party to a contract;
  #4 (n) - declarer;the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps;
contradict(v) - negate;prove negative; show to be false;
  #2 (v) - controvert; oppose;be resistant to;
  #3 (v) - contravene; negate;deny the truth of;
  #4 (v) - belie; negate;be in contradiction with;
contradictory(n) - two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time;
  #2 (adj sat) - mutually exclusive;unable to be both true at the same time;
  #3 (adj sat) - at odds; conflicting; self-contradictory;in disagreement;
  #4 (adj sat) - confounding;that confounds or contradicts or confuses;
  #5 (adj sat) - of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false;
controversial(adj) - marked by or capable of arousing controversy;
converse(n) - a proposition obtained by conversion;
  #2 (v) - discourse;carry on a conversation;
  #3 (adj sat) - reversed; transposed;turned about in order or relation;
  #4 (adj sat) - of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other;

convertible(n) - a car that has top that can be folded or removed;
  #2 (n) - sofa bed;a sofa that can be converted into a bed;
  #3 (n) - convertible security;a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock);
  #4 (adj sat) - transformable; translatable; transmutable;capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy;
  #5 (adj) - exchangeable;capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value;
  #6 (adj sat) - designed to be changed from one use or form to another;
convict(n) - con; inmate; yard bird; yardbird;a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison;
  #2 (n) - a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense;
  #3 (v) - find or declare guilty;
conviction(n) - condemnation; judgment of conviction; sentence;a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;
  #2 (n) - article of faith; strong belief;an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence;
coordination(n) - the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation;
  #2 (n) - being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree;
  #3 (n) - the skillful and effective interaction of movements;
  #4 (n) - the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form;
coral(n) - marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs;
  #2 (n) - a variable color averaging a deep pink;
  #3 (n) - unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces;
  #4 (n) - precious coral; red coral;the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry;
  #5 (adj sat) - of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color;

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corporate(adj sat) - bodied; corporal; embodied; incarnate;possessing or existing in bodily form;
  #2 (adj sat) - incorporated;organized and maintained as a legal corporation;
  #3 (adj sat) - collective;done by or characteristic of individuals acting together;
  #4 (adj) - of or belonging to a corporation;
corps(n) - army corps;an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support;
  #2 (n) - a body of people associated together;
correlate(n) - correlative;either of two or more related or complementary variables;
  #2 (v) - bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation;
  #3 (v) - to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation;
  #4 (adj sat) - correlated; correlative;mutually related;
correspondence(n) - agreement;compatibility of observations;
  #2 (n) - parallelism;similarity by virtue of corresponding;
  #3 (n) - balance; symmetricalness; symmetry;an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane;
  #4 (n) - communication by the exchange of letters;
  #5 (n) - commensurateness; proportionateness;the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount;
correspondent(n) - letter writer;someone who communicates by means of letters;
  #2 (n) - newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman;a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media;
  #3 (adj sat) - analogous;similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar;

corrosion(n) - corroding; erosion;erosion by chemical action;
  #2 (n) - a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action;
corruption(n) - inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony);
  #2 (n) - subversion;destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity;
  #3 (n) - degeneracy; depravation; depravity; putrefaction;moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;
  #4 (n) - corruptness;lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain;
  #5 (n) - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation);
  #6 (n) - putrescence; putridness; rottenness;in a state of progressive putrefaction;
cosmic(adj sat) - inconceivably extended in space or time;
  #2 (adj) - of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe;
cosmos(n) - creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world;everything that exists anywhere;
  #2 (n) - cosmea;any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals;
costume(n) - the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball;
  #2 (n) - the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class;
  #3 (n) - unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place;
  #4 (n) - the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments);
  #5 (v) - dress up;dress in a costume;
  #6 (v) - furnish with costumes; as for a film or play;

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counsel(n) - counseling; counselling; direction; guidance;something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action;
  #2 (n) - advocate; counsellor; counselor; counselor-at-law; pleader;a lawyer who pleads cases in court;
  #3 (v) - advise; rede;give advice to;
counsellor(n) - advocate; counsel; counselor; counselor-at-law; pleader;a lawyer who pleads cases in court;
  #2 (n) - counselor;someone who gives advice about problems;
  #3 (n) - counselor;someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp;
counterpart(n) - similitude; twin;a duplicate copy;
  #2 (n) - opposite number; vis-a-vis;a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another;
courageous(adj) - brave;possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching;
courteous(adj) - characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners;
  #2 (adj sat) - gracious; nice;exhibiting courtesy and politeness;

courtesy(n) - a courteous or respectful or considerate act;
  #2 (n) - good manners;a courteous manner;
  #3 (n) - a courteous or respectful or considerate remark;
courtier(n) - an attendant at the court of a sovereign;
courtroom(n) - court;a room in which a lawcourt sits;
courtyard(n) - court;an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;
coverage(n) - the extent to which something is covered;
  #2 (n) - reportage; reporting;the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television;
  #3 (n) - insurance coverage;the total amount and type of insurance carried;

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cowboy(n) - cattleman; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher;a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback;
  #2 (n) - someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles);
  #3 (n) - rodeo rider;a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging;
crab(n) - a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply;
  #2 (n) - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers;
  #3 (n) - crab louse; phthirius pubis; pubic louse;a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body;
  #4 (n) - crabmeat;the edible flesh of any of various crabs;
  #5 (n) - cancer; cancer the crab;the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22;
  #6 (n) - cancer;a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer;
  #7 (n) - crabby person;a quarrelsome grouch;
  #8 (v) - beef; bellyache; bitch; gripe; grouse; holler; squawk;complain;
  #9 (v) - fish for crab;
  #10 (v) - scurry sideways like a crab;
  #11 (v) - direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind;
cracker(n) - cracker bonbon; snapper;a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends;
  #2 (n) - banger; firecracker;firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing;
  #3 (n) - a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet;
  #4 (n) - a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things;
  #5 (n) - redneck;a poor White person in the southern United States;
crackle(n) - crackle china; crackleware;glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface;
  #2 (n) - crackling; crepitation;the sharp sound of snapping noises;
  #3 (v) - to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks;
  #4 (v) - crunch; scranch; scraunch;make a crushing noise;
  #5 (v) - crepitate;make a crackling sound;
  #6 (adj sat) - having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware;
cradle(n) - a baby bed with sides and rockers;
  #2 (n) - rocker;a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold;
  #3 (n) - birthplace; place of origin; provenance; provenience;where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;
  #4 (n) - birth of a person;
  #5 (v) - run with the stick;
  #6 (v) - hold gently and carefully;
  #7 (v) - wash in a cradle;
  #8 (v) - cut grain with a cradle scythe;
  #9 (v) - hold or place in or as if in a cradle;
  #10 (v) - bring up from infancy;

crank(n) - starter;a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle;
  #2 (n) - chalk; chicken feed; deoxyephedrine; glass; ice; meth; methamphetamine; methamphetamine hydrochloride; methedrine; shabu; trash;an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant;
  #3 (n) - crackpot; fruitcake; nut; nut case; screwball;a whimsically eccentric person;
  #4 (n) - churl; crosspatch; grouch; grump;a bad-tempered person;
  #5 (v) - bend into the shape of a crank;
  #6 (v) - fasten with a crank;
  #7 (v) - crank up;rotate with a crank;
  #8 (v) - crank up;start by cranking;
  #9 (v) - zigzag;travel along a zigzag path;
  #10 (adj sat) - cranky; tender; tippy;inclined to heel over easily under sail;
creak(n) - creaking;a squeaking sound;
  #2 (v) - screak; screech; skreak; squeak; whine;make a high-pitched, screeching noise;
creativity(n) - creative thinking; creativeness;the ability to create;
creditor(n) - a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists;
creek(n) - brook;a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);
  #2 (n) - any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma;

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crescent(n) - any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters;
  #2 (adj sat) - crescent-shaped; lunate; semilunar;resembling the new moon in shape;
crest(n) - a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal;
  #2 (n) - in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet;
  #3 (n) - crown;the center of a cambered road;
  #4 (n) - the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave;
  #5 (n) - crown; peak; summit; tip; top;the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill);
  #6 (v) - reach a high point;
  #7 (v) - cap;lie at the top of;
cricket(n) - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs;
  #2 (n) - leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together;
  #3 (v) - play cricket;
cripple(n) - someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back;
  #2 (v) - lame;deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg;
  #3 (v) - stultify;deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless;
criterion(n) - standard;the ideal in terms of which something can be judged;
  #2 (n) - measure; standard; touchstone;a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;

crooked(adj sat) - hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping;having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect;
  #2 (adj sat) - asymmetrical;irregular in shape or outline;
  #3 (adj) - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned;
  #4 (adj) - corrupt;not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive;
crouch(n) - the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body;
  #2 (v) - hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up; squat;sit on one's heels;
  #3 (v) - bend; bow; stoop;bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
crow(n) - black birds having a raucous call;
  #2 (n) - a Siouan language spoken by the Crow;
  #3 (n) - brag; bragging; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing;an instance of boastful talk;
  #4 (n) - the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it);
  #5 (n) - corvus;a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo;
  #6 (n) - a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana;
  #7 (v) - express pleasure verbally;
  #8 (v) - utter shrill sounds;
  #9 (v) - gloat; triumph;dwell on with satisfaction;
crucial(adj) - important;of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis;
  #2 (adj sat) - all important; all-important; essential; of the essence;of the greatest importance;
  #3 (adj sat) - having crucial relevance;
cruelty(n) - inhuman treatment;a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering;
  #2 (n) - cruelness; harshness;the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance;
  #3 (n) - mercilessness; pitilessness; ruthlessness;feelings of extreme heartlessness;

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cruise(n) - sail;an ocean trip taken for pleasure;
  #2 (v) - sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing;
  #3 (v) - travel at a moderate speed;
  #4 (v) - drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure;
  #5 (v) - look for a sexual partner in a public place;
cruiser(n) - cabin cruiser; pleasure boat; pleasure craft;a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board;
  #2 (n) - a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer;
  #3 (n) - patrol car; police car; police cruiser; prowl car; squad car;a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters;
crumb(n) - small piece of e.g. bread or cake;
  #2 (n) - bum; dirty dog; git; lowlife; puke; rat; rotter; scum bag; skunk; so-and-so; stinker; stinkpot;a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
  #3 (n) - a very small quantity of something;
  #4 (v) - remove crumbs from;
  #5 (v) - break into crumbs;
  #6 (v) - coat with bread crumbs;
crumble(v) - decay; dilapidate;fall into decay or ruin;
  #2 (v) - fall apart;break or fall apart into fragments;
  #3 (v) - break down; collapse; crumple; tumble;fall apart;
crumple(v) - crease; crinkle; rumple; wrinkle;become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;
  #2 (v) - cockle; knit; pucker; rumple;to gather something into small wrinkles or folds;
  #3 (v) - buckle;fold or collapse;
  #4 (v) - break down; collapse; crumble; tumble;fall apart;

crutch(n) - anything that serves as an expedient;
  #2 (n) - a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking;
crystalline(adj) - consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals;
  #2 (adj sat) - crystal clear; limpid; lucid; pellucid; transparent;transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
  #3 (adj sat) - distinctly or sharply outlined;
cubicle(n) - booth; kiosk; stall;small area set off by walls for special use;
  #2 (n) - carrel; carrell; stall;small individual study area in a library;
  #3 (n) - cell;small room in which a monk or nun lives;
cuckoo(n) - any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail;
  #2 (n) - bozo; fathead; goof; goofball; goose; jackass; twat; zany;a man who is a stupid incompetent fool;
  #3 (v) - repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call;
cucumber(n) - cuke;cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons;
  #2 (n) - cucumber vine; cucumis sativus;a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit;

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curb(n) - bridle; check;the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;
  #2 (n) - american stock exchange; amex;a stock exchange in New York;
  #3 (n) - curbing; kerb;an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter);
  #4 (n) - curb bit;a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse;
  #5 (v) - curtail; cut back; restrict;place restrictions on;
  #6 (v) - conquer; inhibit; stamp down; subdue; suppress;to put down by force or authority;
  #7 (v) - keep to the curb;
  #8 (v) - check; contain; control; hold; hold in; moderate;lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;
curly(adj) - having curls or waves;
currency(n) - general acceptance or use;
  #2 (n) - currentness; up-to-dateness;the property of belonging to the present time;
  #3 (n) - the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used;
curricular(adj) - of or relating to an academic course of study;
cutter(n) - cutlery; cutting tool;a cutting implement; a tool for cutting;
  #2 (n) - a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop;
  #3 (n) - pinnace; ship's boat; tender;a boat for communication between ship and shore;
  #4 (n) - someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments);
  #5 (n) - carver;someone who carves the meat;
  #6 (n) - stonecutter;someone who cuts or carves stone;

cylinder(n) - a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air;
  #2 (n) - piston chamber;a chamber within which piston moves;
  #3 (n) - a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases);
  #4 (n) - a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line;
cylindrical(adj sat) - cylindric;having the form of a cylinder;
daisy(n) - any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl;
damn(n) - darn; hoot; red cent; shit; shucks; tinker's dam; tinker's damn;something of little value;
  #2 (v) - anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; imprecate; maledict;wish harm upon; invoke evil upon;
  #3 (adj sat) - blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal;expletives used informally as intensifiers;
  #4 (adj sat) - goddamn;used as expletives;
  #5 (adv) - all-fired; bloody;extremely;
daring(n) - boldness; hardihood; hardiness;the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger;
  #2 (n) - dare;a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy;
  #3 (adj sat) - audacious; venturesome; venturous;disposed to venture or take risks;
  #4 (adj sat) - avant-garde;radically new or original;

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dazzle(n) - brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily;
  #2 (v) - amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill;
  #3 (v) - bedazzle; daze;to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light;
deadline(n) - the point in time at which something must be completed;
deafness(n) - hearing loss;partial or complete loss of hearing;
dealer(n) - a firm engaged in trading;
  #2 (n) - the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game;
  #3 (n) - principal;the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account;
  #4 (n) - bargainer; monger; trader;someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold;
  #5 (n) - a seller of illicit goods;
dean(n) - an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college;
  #2 (n) - the head of the College of Cardinals;
  #3 (n) - doyen;a man who is the senior member of a group;
  #4 (n) - james byron dean; james dean;United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955);

debtor(n) - debitor;a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt;
decent(adj) - conforming to conventions of sexual behavior;
  #2 (adj sat) - observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress;
  #3 (adj sat) - decently clothed;
  #4 (adj sat) - becoming; comely; comme il faut; decorous; seemly;according with custom or propriety;
  #5 (adj sat) - nice;socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous;
  #6 (adj sat) - adequate; enough;sufficient for the purpose;
  #7 (adv) - decently; in good order; properly; right; the right way;in the right manner;
deception(n) - conjuration; conjuring trick; illusion; legerdemain; magic; magic trick; thaumaturgy; trick;an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers;
  #2 (n) - deceit; dissembling; dissimulation;the act of deceiving;
  #3 (n) - deceit; misrepresentation;a misleading falsehood;
decibel(n) - db;a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity;
decidedly(adv) - by all odds; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably;without question and beyond doubt;

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decimal(n) - a number in the decimal system;
  #2 (n) - decimal fraction;a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10;
  #3 (adj sat) - denary;numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten;
declaration(n) - resolution; resolve;a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote;
  #2 (n) - a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written);
  #3 (n) - announcement; annunciation; proclamation;a formal public statement;
  #4 (n) - unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction;
  #5 (n) - contract;the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make;
  #6 (n) - a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties;
decline(n) - declension; declination; declivity; descent; downslope; fall;a downward slope or bend;
  #2 (n) - decay;a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current;
  #3 (n) - diminution;change toward something smaller or lower;
  #4 (n) - declination;a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state;
  #5 (v) - worsen;grow worse;
  #6 (v) - go down; wane;grow smaller;
  #7 (v) - refuse;show unwillingness towards;
  #8 (v) - inflect for number, gender, case, etc.,;
  #9 (v) - correct; slump;go down in value;
  #10 (v) - go down;
  #11 (v) - pass up; refuse; reject; turn down;refuse to accept;
decode(v) - decipher; decrypt;convert code into ordinary language;
decompose(v) - break down; break up;separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts;
  #2 (v) - molder; moulder; rot;break down;
  #3 (v) - decay; disintegrate;lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current;

dedicate(v) - set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church;
  #2 (v) - inscribe or address by way of compliment;
  #3 (v) - commit; consecrate; devote; give;give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;
  #4 (v) - open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building;
deduction(n) - subtraction;the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole);
  #2 (n) - discount; price reduction;the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise;
  #3 (n) - deductive reasoning; synthesis;reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect);
  #4 (n) - entailment; implication;something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
  #5 (n) - discount;an amount or percentage deducted;
  #6 (n) - tax deduction; tax write-off;a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket;
deem(v) - hold; take for; view as;keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view;
default(n) - loss due to not showing up;
  #2 (n) - default option;an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified;
  #3 (n) - nonpayment; nonremittal;loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid;
  #4 (n) - nonpayment; nonremittal;act of failing to meet a financial obligation;
  #5 (v) - default on;fail to pay up;
defensive(n) - defensive attitude;an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive');
  #2 (adj) - intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack;
  #3 (adj sat) - justificative; justificatory;attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing;

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defer(v) - accede; bow; give in; submit;yield to another's wish or opinion;
  #2 (v) - hold over; postpone; prorogue; put off; put over; remit; set back; shelve; table;hold back to a later time;
deficiency(n) - inadequacy; insufficiency;lack of an adequate quantity or number;
  #2 (n) - lack; want;the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
deficient(adj sat) - lacking; wanting;inadequate in amount or degree;
  #2 (adj sat) - inferior; substandard;falling short of some prescribed norm;
  #3 (adj) - insufficient;of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement;
deficit(n) - shortage; shortfall;the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required;
  #2 (n) - an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period);
  #3 (n) - the score by which a team or individual is losing;
  #4 (n) - a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning;
deflect(v) - block; parry;impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball);
  #2 (v) - distract;draw someone's attention away from something;
  #3 (v) - turn aside and away from an initial or intended course;
  #4 (v) - bend; turn away;turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest;
  #5 (v) - avert; avoid; debar; fend off; forefend; forfend; head off; obviate; stave off; ward off;prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;

deflection(n) - deflexion; deviation; digression; divagation; diversion;a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);
  #2 (n) - bending; deflexion;the property of being bent or deflected;
  #3 (n) - deflexion;the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position;
  #4 (n) - deflexion; refraction;the amount by which a propagating wave is bent;
  #5 (n) - warp;a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting;
deform(v) - change form; change shape;assume a different shape or form;
  #2 (v) - distort; strain;alter the shape of (something) by stress;
  #3 (v) - become misshapen;
  #4 (v) - bend; flex; turn; twist;cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
  #5 (v) - contort; distort; wring;twist and press out of shape;
  #6 (v) - make formless;
deformation(n) - contortion;the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself);
  #2 (n) - alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it;
  #3 (n) - distortion;a change for the worse;
defrost(v) - deice; de-ice;make or become free of frost or ice;
defy(v) - dare;challenge;
  #2 (v) - hold; hold up; withstand;resist or confront with resistance;
  #3 (v) - refuse; resist;elude, especially in a baffling way;

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degenerate(n) - deviant; deviate; pervert;a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior;
  #2 (v) - deteriorate; devolve; drop;grow worse;
  #3 (adj sat) - debauched; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; profligate; riotous;unrestrained by convention or morality;
degradation(n) - debasement;changing to a lower state (a less respected state);
  #2 (n) - abasement; abjection;a low or downcast state;
dehumanization(n) - dehumanisation;the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities;
dehumanize(v) - dehumanise;make mechanical or routine;
  #2 (v) - dehumanise;deprive of human qualities;
delegate(n) - a person appointed or elected to represent others;
  #2 (v) - assign; depute; designate;give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person);
  #3 (v) - depute;transfer power to someone;

delegation(n) - delegating; deputation; relegating; relegation;authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions;
  #2 (n) - commission; delegacy; deputation; mission;a group of representatives or delegates;
deliberate(v) - debate;discuss the pros and cons of an issue;
  #2 (v) - consider; debate; moot; turn over;think about carefully; weigh;
  #3 (adj sat) - careful; measured;unhurried and with care and dignity;
  #4 (adj sat) - calculated; measured;carefully thought out in advance;
deliberately(adv) - advisedly; by choice; by design; designedly; intentionally; on purpose; purposely;with intention; in an intentional manner;
  #2 (adv) - measuredly;in a deliberate unhurried manner;
deliberation(n) - deliberateness;the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision;
  #2 (n) - deliberateness; slowness; unhurriedness;a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry;
  #3 (n) - advisement; weighing;careful consideration;
  #4 (n) - calculation;planning something carefully and intentionally;
  #5 (n) - discussion of all sides of a question;
delightful(adj sat) - delicious;greatly pleasing or entertaining;

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demographer(n) - demographist; population scientist;a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics;
demonstration(n) - presentation; presentment;a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view;
  #2 (n) - a show of military force or preparedness;
  #3 (n) - manifestation;a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature);
  #4 (n) - monstrance;proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion;
  #5 (n) - demo;a visual presentation showing how something works;
denial(n) - abnegation; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation;renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others;
  #2 (n) - defence; defense; demurrer;a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him;
  #3 (n) - disaffirmation;the act of asserting that something alleged is not true;
  #4 (n) - the act of refusing to comply (as with a request);
  #5 (n) - a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts;
denomination(n) - appellation; appellative; designation;identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others;
  #2 (n) - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money;
  #3 (n) - a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith;
denote(v) - refer;have as a meaning;
  #2 (v) - be a sign or indication of;
  #3 (v) - announce;make known; make an announcement;

denounce(v) - speak out against;
  #2 (v) - betray; give away; grass; rat; shit; shop; snitch; stag; tell on;give away information about somebody;
  #3 (v) - announce the termination of, as of treaties;
  #4 (v) - brand; mark; stigmatise; stigmatize;to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;
dent(n) - ding; gouge; nick;an impression in a surface (as made by a blow);
  #2 (n) - an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening);
  #3 (n) - incision; prick; scratch; slit;a depression scratched or carved into a surface;
  #4 (v) - indent;make a depression into;
dental(n) - alveolar; alveolar consonant; dental consonant;a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to the teeth;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to dentistry;
dentist(n) - dental practitioner; tooth doctor;a person qualified to practice dentistry;
dependant(n) - dependent;a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support);
  #2 (adj sat) - dependent; drug-addicted; hooked; strung-out;addicted to a drug;
  #3 (adj sat) - dependent; qualified;contingent on something else;

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depict(v) - describe; draw;give a description of;
  #2 (v) - picture; render; show;show in, or as in, a picture;
  #3 (v) - limn; portray;make a portrait of;
deposition(n) - dethronement;the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office;
  #2 (n) - deposit;the act of putting something somewhere;
  #3 (n) - a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office;
  #4 (n) - deposit;the natural process of laying down a deposit of something;
depot(n) - entrepot; storage; store; storehouse;a depository for goods;
  #2 (n) - terminal; terminus;station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods;
depreciation(n) - a decrease in price or value;
  #2 (n) - derogation; disparagement;a communication that belittles somebody or something;
  #3 (n) - wear and tear;decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use;
depression(n) - pushing down;
  #2 (n) - sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy;
  #3 (n) - natural depression;a sunken or depressed geological formation;
  #4 (n) - angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object);
  #5 (n) - impression; imprint;a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;
  #6 (n) - clinical depression; depressive disorder;a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention;
  #7 (n) - a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity;
  #8 (n) - economic crisis; slump;a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment;
  #9 (n) - low;an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;
  #10 (n) - great depression;a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment;

deprive(v) - impoverish;take away;
  #2 (v) - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining;
  #3 (v) - divest; strip;take away possessions from someone;
deputy(n) - lieutenant;an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent;
  #2 (n) - deputy sheriff;someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies;
  #3 (n) - surrogate;a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others;
  #4 (n) - a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France);
derivation(n) - the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin;
  #2 (n) - drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation;
  #3 (n) - drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body;
  #4 (n) - ancestry; filiation; lineage;inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline;
  #5 (n) - a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions;
  #6 (n) - deriving; etymologizing;an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase;
  #7 (n) - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues);
  #8 (n) - the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation;
descriptive(adj) - describing the structure of a language;
  #2 (adj) - serving to describe or inform or characterized by description;
designer(n) - architect;someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings);
  #2 (n) - clothes designer; couturier; fashion designer;someone who designs clothing;
  #3 (n) - intriguer;a person who devises plots or intrigues;
  #4 (n) - graphic designer;someone who specializes in graphic design;
  #5 (n) - decorator; house decorator; interior decorator; interior designer; room decorator;a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings;

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desolation(n) - devastation;an event that results in total destruction;
  #2 (n) - forlornness; loneliness;sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned;
  #3 (n) - bareness; bleakness; nakedness;a bleak and desolate atmosphere;
  #4 (n) - devastation;the state of being decayed or destroyed;
dessert(n) - afters; sweet;a dish served as the last course of a meal;
destine(v) - designate; intend; specify;design or destine;
  #2 (v) - designate; doom; fate;decree or designate beforehand;
destiny(n) - fate;an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future;
  #2 (n) - fate;the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman);
  #3 (n) - circumstances; fate; fortune; lot; luck; portion;your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
detach(v) - cause to become detached or separated; take off;
  #2 (v) - come away; come off;come to be detached;
  #3 (v) - separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment;

detective(n) - investigator; police detective; tec;a police officer who investigates crimes;
  #2 (n) - an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public;