| carrizo | (noun) tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts | Synonyms: common reed, ditch reed, Phragmites communis |
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| casino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: cassino |
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| (noun) a public building for gambling and entertainment | Synonyms: gambling casino |
| cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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| castrato | (noun) a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice | - |
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| cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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| cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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| ceibo | (noun) small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered | Synonyms: common coral tree, cry-baby tree, crybaby tree, Erythrina crista-galli |
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| cello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: violoncello |
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| cembalo | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: harpsichord |
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| centavo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal | - |
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| centesimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile | - |
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| centimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain | - |
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| cero | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: kingfish, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
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| (noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
| cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| chino | (noun) a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms | - |
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| chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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| ciao | (noun) an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) | Synonyms: aloha |
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| cicero | (noun) a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em | - |
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| cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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| cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| cirio | (noun) candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers | Synonyms: boojum tree, Fouquieria columnaris, Idria columnaris |
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| cisco | (noun) important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America | Synonyms: Coregonus artedi, lake herring |
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| (noun) cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward | Synonyms: lake herring |
| claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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| cockatoo | (noun) white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds | - |
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| coco | (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
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| cocobolo | (noun) a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | Synonyms: Dalbergia retusa |
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| coho | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon |
| coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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| colugo | (noun) arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps | Synonyms: flying cat, flying lemur |
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| columbo | (noun) any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington | Synonyms: American columbo, American gentian, deer's-ear, deer's-ears, pyramid plant |
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| combo | (noun) a small band of jazz musicians | Synonyms: jazz band, jazz group |
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| comedo | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: blackhead |
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| commando | (noun) an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | - |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: ranger |
| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| condo | (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condominium |
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| congo | (noun) black tea grown in China | Synonyms: congou, congou tea, English breakfast tea |
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| contadino | (noun) an Italian farmer | - |
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| continuo | (noun) a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | Synonyms: basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
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| conto | (noun) 1 conto equals 1,000 escudos in Portugal | - |
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| contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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| contralto | (noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) a woman singer having a contralto voice | - |
| coo | (noun) the sound made by a pigeon | - |
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| corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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| credo | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: creed |
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| crescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
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| criollo | (noun) cocoa of superior quality | - |
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| (noun) a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish) | - |
| cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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| curacao | (noun) flavored with sour orange peel | Synonyms: curacoa |
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| curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| curio | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| dado | (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: wainscot |
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| (noun) a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it | - |
| (noun) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase | - |
| dago | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| dalo | (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dasheen, taro, taro plant |
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| deco | (noun) a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production | Synonyms: art deco |
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| decrescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| dekko | (noun) British slang for a look | - |
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| demo | (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| deprecatio | (noun) a praying against evil, against others, or oneself; a prayer for the removal of some evil. | - |
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| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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| diminuendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| dinero | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| dingo | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, warragal, warrigal |
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| disco | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: discotheque |
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| (noun) popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques | Synonyms: disco music |
| ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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| divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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| do | (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, brawl |
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| (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: doh, ut |
| dodo | (noun) extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons | Synonyms: Raphus cucullatus |
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| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: fogey, fogy, fossil |
| domino | (noun) a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots | - |
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| (noun) a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes | Synonyms: eye mask, half mask |
| (noun) a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume | - |
| duo | (noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duet, duette |
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| (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, twosome |
| (noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duet, duette |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| duomo | (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: cathedral |
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| dynamo | (noun) generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature | - |
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| echo | (noun) an imitation or repetition | - |
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| (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: replication, reverberation, sound reflection |
| (noun) a reflected television or radio or radar beam | - |
| (noun) a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc. | - |
| (noun) a reply that repeats what has just been said | - |
| eddo | (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, taro |
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| ego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind | - |
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| (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: self |
| (noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: egotism, self-importance |
| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| embryo | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: conceptus, fertilized egg |
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| (noun) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium | - |
| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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| escudo | (noun) the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: Cape Verde escudo |
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| (noun) formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo | Synonyms: Portuguese escudo |
| espresso | (noun) strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans | - |
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| euro | (noun) the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies | - |
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| expo | (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, exposition |
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| fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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| falsetto | (noun) a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register | - |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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| farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| fellatio | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellation |
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| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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| finocchio | (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads | Synonyms: fennel, Florence fennel |
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| fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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