| Term | Definition |
| Celerity | cheerful speed |
| Cerebral | intellectual |
| Chagrin | oversweet; saccharine |
| Circumscribed | defined or limited; isolated |
| Cloying | oversweet; saccharine |
| Confound | to confuse; to perplex; to befuddle |
| Conjecture | a guess |
| Constituents | voters |
| Consummate | complete; perfect |
| Convoluted | complicated, complex |
| Crude | rude; lacking refinement |
| Curtail | to cut short |
| Debased | morally low; base |
| Decorous | having propriety |
| Denuded | made ineffectective or infertile |
| Desultory | aimless: lacking a plan purpose |
| Didactic | relating to instruction, lecturing |
| Dilatory | lacking goals or purpose; aimless |
| Din | noise |
| Dirge | a funeral song |
| Discomfited | embarrassed disconcerted |
| Discretionary | based on personal; showing prudence |
| Disingenuous | dishonest; crafty |
| Disposed | behaviorally inclined |
| Divine | heavenly; godly |