Word origins

• compositumGiven a field extension F/K and subextensions A and B, the smallest subextension that contains both A and B.
• compos mentisOf sound mind, sane; thus fully accountable (legally and/or morally) for one's deeds.
• compotationThe social act of drinking together.
• comprecationThe act of praying together.
• comprobateTo agree; to concur.
• comprobationjoint attestation; proof
• compromitTo compromise.
• compulsativeCompulsatory; employing force or constraint.
• compulsatoryEnforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
• compunctAffected with compunction; regretful, remorseful.
• compurgationAcquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
• compurgatrixFemale compurgator.
• computusThe calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
• conationThe power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
• conativeOf or pertaining to a striving action.
• conatusAn effort, an endeavour, a striving.
• concamerateTo arch over; to vault.
• concamerationAn arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults
• concavousconcave
• concertativeRelated to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
• concessioThe rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
• conchoidAny of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).
• conchyliatedOf a purple colour, distinguished by Pliny from Tyrian purple and amethystine.
• conciliableCapable of being conciliated or reconciled.
• conciliabuleAn obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.
• conciliatrixA female conciliator.
• concinnateTo place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.
• concinnityThe harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
• concinnousCharacterized by concinnity, or (archaic, figurative) neat; elegant.
• concionatorA haranguer of the people; a preacher.
• concitationRousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
• conclamationAn outcry or shout of many together.
• concolourOf the same colour; of uniform colour.
• concordableCapable of according; agreeing; harmonious
• concorporationunion of things or entities in one mass or body
• concreateTo create at the same time.
• concremationThe act of burning different things together, especially in Hinduism, along with a widow.
• concrementconcretion
• concrescenceThe growing together and merging of similar or dissimilar parts.
• concrescibleCapable of growing together.
• concreticsSpecifics; concrete details.
• concubinalOf or pertaining to a concubine or concubinage.
• concubinateA concubinage.
• concubinatusA type of non-marital monogamous union in Ancient Rome.
• conculcateTo tread or trample underfoot.
• concupiscentAmorous; lustful.
• concupiscentialPertaining to concupiscence; lustful.
• concupitiveRelating to the nature of concupiscence or lust; concupiscible.
• concussTo injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact.
• condemnateTo condemn.
• condictionA claim for restitution of a payment
• conditeTo pickle; to preserve.
• conditoryA repository for holding things; a hiding place or relicary.
• condonationThe condoning of an offence.
• conducentconducive; tending
• conducibleconducive; tending; contributing
• conductitioushired, employed (for wages)
• conductrixA female conductor; a woman who conducts.
• confabulateTo speak casually with; to chat.
• confectTo make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
• conferruminateTo unite into a solid mass
• confervaAny of a number of unbranched slender green freshwater algae, formerly in the genus Conferva, now mostly in genera Cladophora or Tribonema
• confessaryOne who makes a confession.
• configurateTo configure; to arrange or shape.
• confirmandA candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.
• confitentA person who confesses; a confessor or penitent
• confiteorA prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.
• confixAn affix consisting of a prefix and suffix attached simultaneously to the root.
• conflagrantBrilliantly burning; of or resembling a conflagration; intensely blazing.
• conflagrateTo catch fire.
• conflictionA conflicting condition; conflict.
• conflowto flow together into one stream, to converge
• confluviumSynonym of confluence (“convergence or combination”).
• conforaneousOf the same court or marketplace.
• confutationThe act or process of confuting; refutation.
• congeriesA collection or aggregation of disparate items.
• congiaryA present of corn, wine, oil, etc. or later of money, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the common people.
• congiusA Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 10 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 3.3 L although differing slightly over time.
• conglaciateTo turn to ice; to freeze.
• conglobateShaped like or formed into a ball.
• congreeTo agree.
• congressionThe act of coming together; congress.
• congrueTo agree; to be suitable.
• conjectTo conjecture.
• conjectorOne who guesses or conjectures.
• conniventForbearing to see; intentionally inattentive.
• connixationA large, smothering, and destructive blizzard.
• connubialOf or relating to the state of being married.
• connumerationA reckoning or counting together.
• conopeumA thin flap of silica on the external valve face of a diatom
• conquassateTo shake; to agitate.
• consanguinamoryConsensual adult romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.
• consarcinationA patching together; patchwork.
• conscientconscious; aware
• conscribeTo enroll; to enlist.
• conscript fatherA senator of Ancient Rome.
• consectaneousFollowing as a matter of course.
• consectaryThat which follows by consequence or is logically deducible.
• consecuteTo follow closely; to endeavour to overtake; to pursue.
• consecutio temporumA set of grammatical rules of a particular language, governing the agreement between the tenses of verbs in related clauses or sentences; agreement between tenses of verbs in accordance with said set of rules.