| cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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| cakehole | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: gob, hole, maw, trap, yap |
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| calycle | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: caliculus, calyculus |
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| (noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calyculus, epicalyx, false calyx |
| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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| (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
| camomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, Chamaemelum nobilis, chamomile |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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| (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
| canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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| canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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| cantle | (noun) the back of a saddle seat | - |
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| capriole | (noun) (dressage) a vertical jump of a trained horse with a kick of the hind legs at the top of the jump | - |
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| (noun) a playful leap or hop | Synonyms: caper |
| capsule | (noun) a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside | - |
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| (noun) a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space | Synonyms: space capsule |
| (noun) a small container | - |
| (noun) a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute | Synonyms: ejection seat, ejector seat |
| (noun) a structure that encloses a body part | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, condensation |
| (noun) a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses | - |
| carbuncle | (noun) an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus | - |
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| (noun) deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets | - |
| cardcastle | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardhouse, house of cards |
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| caruncle | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncula |
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| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| castle | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castling |
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| (noun) a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack | - |
| (noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: rook |
| (noun) a large and stately mansion | Synonyms: palace |
| cattle | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen |
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| centile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: percentile |
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| centriole | (noun) one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis | - |
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| chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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| chandelle | (noun) a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction | - |
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| chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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| chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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| chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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| chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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| (noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
| chicle | (noun) gum-like substance from the sapodilla | Synonyms: chicle gum |
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| chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| chiocciole | (noun) a type of pasta that is elbow-shaped. | - |
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| chipotle | (noun) a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking | - |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| chondrule | (noun) small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks | - |
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| chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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| chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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| chronicle | (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, history, story |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| chuckhole | (noun) a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) | Synonyms: pothole |
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| chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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| chyle | (noun) a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats | - |
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| circle | (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circuit, lap |
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| (noun) any circular or rotating mechanism | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: rotary, roundabout, traffic circle |
| (noun) a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra | Synonyms: dress circle |
| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roach, roofy, rope, rophy |
| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, lot, set |
| (noun) ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point | - |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a circle | - |
| citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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| clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| coalhole | (noun) a bin for holding coal | Synonyms: coalbin |
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| cobble | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobblestone, sett |
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| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
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| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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| (noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
| cole | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: kail, kale |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, colewort, kail, kale |
| collectable | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
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| collectible | (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
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| colpocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: vaginocele |
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| colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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| combustible | (noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
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| comestible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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| condyle | (noun) a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone | - |
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| console | (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: cabinet |
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| (noun) an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) | - |
| (noun) a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) | - |
| (noun) a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall | Synonyms: console table |
| constable | (noun) a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff | - |
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| (noun) a police officer of the lowest rank | Synonyms: police constable |
| conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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| (noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
| convertible | (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
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| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| coquille | (noun) a dish in the form of a scallop shell | - |
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| (noun) seafood served in a scallop shell | - |
| coracle | (noun) a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain | - |
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| corpuscle | (noun) either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets | Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| couple | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome |
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| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: match, mates |
| (noun) (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) a small indefinite number | - |
| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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| (noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
| (noun) any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
| crackle | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
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| (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
| cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
| (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
| (noun) birth of a person | - |
| crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
| creole | (noun) a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | - |
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| crepuscle | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| cringle | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop |
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| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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| crottle | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottal |
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| crucible | (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | Synonyms: melting pot |
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| cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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| (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
| cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| cupule | (noun) a sucker on the feet of certain flies | - |
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| (noun) cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn | Synonyms: acorn cup |
| cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
| (noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
| cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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| cycle | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, wheel |
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| (noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon | Synonyms: oscillation |
| (noun) a periodically repeated sequence of events | - |
| (noun) a series of poems or songs on the same theme | - |
| (noun) an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs | Synonyms: rhythm, round |
| (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle per second, cycles/second, hertz, Hz |
| cyclostyle | (noun) a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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| cymule | (noun) a small cyme, generally with few flowers | - |
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| cystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: colpocystocele |
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| dale | (noun) an open river valley (in a hilly area) | - |
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| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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| debacle | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: fiasco |
| (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | - |
| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| decile | (noun) (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
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| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| deductible | (noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
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| (noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
| defile | (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: gorge |
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| deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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