| condensation |
When a gas changes into a liquid, we call it condensation. Condensation happens when a gas cools to a certain temperature. |
| condiment |
A condiment is a kind of food that we add in small amounts to another food. We use condiments to give food extra flavor. The condiments that people like most in America are ketchup and mustard. Condiments often taste spicy or sweet. In other countries, people often use very different condiments with their food. |
| condition |
A condition is the way someone or something is. If your shoes are dirty, being dirty is the condition of the shoes. If a person is tired, then being tired is that person's condition. [3 definitions] |
| conduct |
When you conduct things or people, you guide them or lead them. You show them things as you go around somewhere, or you bring them to the place they need to go. [2 definitions] |
| conductor |
A conductor is a person who leads a group of people as they play music. The conductor helps them play well together and play correctly. [2 definitions] |
| cone |
A cone is a figure that is mostly round, but it is wide at the bottom and narrow and pointed at the top. [3 definitions] |
| confidence |
When you have confidence, you feel sure that you can do something. [2 definitions] |
| confident |
When you are confident, you feel sure about something. [2 definitions] |
| confuse |
When something confuses you, it makes it hard for you to understand it. Something about it doesn't make sense. |
| Congo River |
The Congo River is an important river in Africa. It is a very large river, and it is the deepest in the world. The Congo River travels through a major rainforest as it flows north through the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Then it flows along the border with another country called the Republic of the Congo. At its end, the Congo River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| conifer |
A conifer is a type of tree. A pine tree is one kind of conifer. Trees that are conifers produce cones that hold their seeds, and their leaves are very narrow and sharp. The leaves of conifers are called needles. Most conifers are green all the time. |
| conjunction |
A conjunction is a certain kind of word. A conjunction is a word that connects other words or parts of sentences together. If we say "cars and trucks," the conjunction "and" connects "cars" with "trucks." "And" is one of the most common conjunctions, but there are many others also. Words like "but," "so," "because," and "while" are some of the conjunctions we have in English. |
| connect |
When you connect something to something else, you join the things together. |
| Connecticut |
Connecticut is one of the fifty states that make up the United States of America. A short way to write Connecticut is CT. |
| connection |
When there is a connection between two things, it means that they have something to do with each other. When you have a connection with a person, it means that you are related to them or that you know them in some way. |
| conserve |
When you conserve something, you try not to use too much of it. You try not to waste it so that you will have enough of it in the future. |
| consider |
When you consider something, you think about it carefully and in a serious way. [2 definitions] |
| consonant |
When you speak, you make different kinds of sounds. Some of these sounds are called consonants and some are called vowels. These two kinds of sounds are made in different ways in your mouth. The letters D, K, B, S and M stand for some of the consonant sounds that we make in English. The letters A, E, and O stand for some of the vowel sounds. [2 definitions] |
| contact |
When there is contact between two things, they are touching each other in some way. When you make contact with something, you touch it. [3 definitions] |
| contagious |
If a disease is contagious, it means that one person can give it to another person. If you have a contagious illness, you can pass it to other people. [2 definitions] |
| contain |
When something is contained, it is in or inside of something else. When a food contains salt, it means that the food has salt in it. If a box contains cereal, it means that the box has cereal inside it. |