| conservation |
an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
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| conservation of energy |
the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
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| conservative |
resistant to change opposed to liberal reforms cautious: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" button-down: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek a person who has conservative ideas or opinions bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
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| consumptive |
tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" a person with pulmonary tuberculosis afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
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| conservator |
curator: the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
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