Word origins

• consensionAgreement; accord.
• consentaneousDone or made by general consent; widely agreed or approved.
• conservableCapable of being preserved from decay or injury.
• conservantHaving the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
• conservatrixA female conservator.
• consessusAn assembly or congregation of people, especially in religious contexts.
• consideranceAn act of considering; consideration.
• consignationThe act of consigning.
• consilientOf academic disciplines, displaying consilience.
• consilium abeundiA traditional form of expulsion from an organization or school.
• consimilarHaving similarities in common
• consobrinalOf or pertaining to a cousin.
• consociateAn associate; an accomplice.
• consociationAssociating, or coming together in a union; (countable) an instance of this.
• consolateComforted, consoled.
• consolatioA ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals.
• consolatorOne who consoles or comforts.
• consolatrixA female consoler.
• consolidantA substance applied to a material, such as rotten wood, to give it solidity and strength.
• consonancyCongruity; consistency.
• consonousconcordant in sound; harmonious
• consopiteTo lull to sleep, to quieten, or to dull.
• consortionjoining; association, or companionship
• conspectionObservation with understanding.
• conspersionThe act of sprinkling.
• conspissationA thickening or making viscous; thickness
• conspurcateTo pollute; to defile.
• conspurcationdefilement
• ConstantinopolitanRelating to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
• constellateTo combine as a cluster.
• constringeTo constrict; to tighten.
• constringentcontracting, binding, or compressing.
• constructio ad sensumA grammatical construction in which a word’s inflection is determined by the semantics of the word or words with which it associates, in contravention of what is required by grammar.
• constultTo act together in a foolish or stupid manner, to become as great a fool as those around, to behave as much in a foolish or stupid manner as those around.
• constuprateTo rape, violate.
• consuetudinalAccording to custom; customary; usual.
• consultorOne who gives counsel; an adviser, especially in the Catholic Church.
• consummatorOne who consummates.
• consumptuousSynonym of consumptive.
• contabescentWasting away gradually.
• contabulateTo lay floorboards.
• contagiumcontagion; contagious matter
• contaminableCapable of being contaminated.
• contemperTo modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate or soften.
• contemplableContemplatable
• contemplantGiven to contemplation; meditative.
• contemplatrixA female contemplator.
• contemporalOf or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action occurs (and is completed) immediately before the primary action of the statement.
• contemporanea expositioLegal opinions set forth at the time a document was written.
• contemptionSynonym of contempt
• contendentAn antagonist, rival, or contestant.
• contentationcontentment; satisfaction
• conterminalConterminous.
• contesserationA harmonious union.
• conticentsilent
• contignationThe act or process of framing or slotting together, or uniting, like beams in a fabric.
• contingenceContact; touching.
• continuandoThe situation where a plaintiff recovered damages for several trespasses in the same action.
• contortuplicatePlaited lengthwise and also twisted.
• contra-Against; in opposition to.
• contragredientGenerally, denoting an object inversed and transposed (to another).
• contrahentEntering into covenant; contracting.
• contra proferentemA doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.
• contrectationThe initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
• contristTo make sad, to upset.
• contristateTo make sorrowful; to sadden or grieve.
• controversalFacing opposite directions.
• contrudeto crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
• contubernalLiving in close proximity (as though sharing a tent); intimate, familiar.
• contuberniumA type of quasi-marriage between slaves.
• conturbTo disturb or perturb greatly.
• conturbationdisorder, disturbance
• contuseTo injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
• convalesceTo recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
• convelTo tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
• convellentTending to tear or pull.
• conventiculumA short intensive immersion workshop where participants speak only Latin (or sometimes Ancient Greek) from morning to night, typically featuring conversation circles, games, lectures, meals, and excursions, all conducted exclusively in the ancient language.
• convertendAny proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
• convivalRelating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
• convivencecoexistence, cohabitation
• convocateTo call together (people); to convoke.
• co-optTo elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
• cooptateTo choose; to elect.
• coprophageA living organism that feeds on feces or fecal matter.
• copulantOne engaged in sexual union.
• copulativeOf or pertaining to copulation.
• coquinarySynonym of culinary.
• cor-prerhotic form of con-
• coraco-coracoid process
• coracoidPart of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals; the coracoid process
• corallinA mixture of phenolic dyestuffs consisting mostly of aurin.
• corallumThe skeleton of a coral. It can be calcareous or horny, simple or compound.
• coralporosisThe weakening of coral skeletons due to increased porosity, caused by ocean acidification.
• corbiculumSynonym of corbicula (“bee's pollen-basket”).
• corbitaA two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
• corbulidAny bivalve in the family Corbulidae.
• corculumThe central part of a seed, from which the new plant develops.
• coriaceousResembling leather; leathery.
• coridineA colourless or yellow oil (C₁₀H₁₅N) found in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base homologous with pyridine.
• CorinthiacOf or relating to Corinth; Corinthian.