Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person.
Compatibility (n.) The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.
Compatible (a.) Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.
Compatibleness (n.) Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.
Compatibly (adv.) In a compatible manner.
Compatient (a.) Suffering or enduring together.
Compatriot (n.) One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
Compatriot (a.) Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
Compatriotism (n.) The condition of being compatriots.
Compear (v. i.) To appear.
Compear (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.
Compeer () An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.
Compeer (v. t.) To be equal with; to match.
Compeer (v. i.) Alt. of Compeir
Compeir (v. i.) See Compear.
Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compel
Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compel
Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.
Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.
Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.
Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.
Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.
Compend (n.) A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
Compendiarious (a.) Short; compendious.
Compendiate (v. t.) To sum or collect together.
Compendious (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
Compendiously (adv.) In a compendious manner.
Compendiousness (n.) The state or quality of being compendious.
Compendiums (pl. ) of Compendium
Compendia (pl. ) of Compendium
Compendium (n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
Compensated (imp. & p. p.) of Compensate
Compensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compensate
Compensate (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
Compensate (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
Compensate (v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Compensation (n.) The act or principle of compensating.
Compensation (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
Compensation (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
Compensation (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
Compensation (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensative (a.) Affording compensation.
Compensative (n.) Compensation.
Compensator (n.) One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.
Compensatory (a.) Serving for compensation; making amends.
Compense (v. t.) To compensate.
Comperendinate (v. t.) To delay.
Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.
Competed (imp. & p. p.) of Compete
Competing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compete
Compete (v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
Competence (n.) Alt. of Competency
Competency (n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
Competency (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Competency (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
Competency (n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
Competent (a.) Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Competent (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
Competently (adv.) In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.
Competible (a.) Compatible; suitable; consistent.
Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competitive (a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Competitor (n.) One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
Competitor (n.) An associate; a confederate.
Competitory (a.) Acting in competition; competing; rival.
Competitress (n.) A woman who competes.
Competitrix (n.) A competitress.
Compilation (n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
Compilator (n.) Compiler.
Compiled (imp. & p. p.) of Compile
Compiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compile
Compile (v. t.) To put together; to construct; to build.
Compile (v. t.) To contain or comprise.
Compile (v. t.) To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
Compile (v. t.) To write; to compose.
Compilement (n.) Compilation.
Compiler (n.) One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
Compinge (v. t.) To compress; to shut up.
Complacence (n.) Alt. of Complacency
Complacency (n.) Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.
Complacency (n.) The cause of pleasure or joy.
Complacency (n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Complacent (a.) Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.
Complacential (a.) Marked by, or causing, complacence.
Complacently (adv.) In a complacent manner.
Complained (imp. & p. p.) of Complain
Complaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complain
Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
Complain (v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
Complain (v. t.) To lament; to bewail.
Complainable (a.) That may be complained of.