English Words: C

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carnynoun

A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).

carnycesnoun

plural of carnyx

carnyxnoun

A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.

Caroname

A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.

caro sposonoun

A dear husband.

Caro's acidname

Synonym of peroxymonosulfuric acid.

Caro-Kann Defencenoun

A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 c6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black king's bishop's pawn advances one square.

carobnoun

An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.

carobbiitenoun

Potassium fluoride, a rare, soft, colourless cubic mineral.

carochenoun

A form of stately carriage or chariot

carolnoun

A round dance accompanied by singing.

Carol Greenname

A hamlet in Berkswell parish, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP2577).

Carol numbernoun

An integer of the form 4ⁿ-2ⁿ⁺¹-1.

Carol primenoun

A Carol number that is also a prime number.

Carol Streamname

A village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.

carol-okenoun

Christmas-themed karaoke.

Carolanname

A surname from Irish.

Carolename

A female given name from French, variant of Carol

Caroleanadj

Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.

carolernoun

A carol singer.

carolersnoun

plural of caroler

Carolianadj

Alternative form of Carolean.

carolinnoun

A former gold coin of Germany

Carolinaname

A female given name from Latin, Latinate form of Caroline; rare in English.

Carolina caviarnoun

A side dish or dip made from black-eyed peas, to which may be added onion, tomatoes, corn, and spices.

Carolina cranesbillnoun

Any of the small annual flowering shrubs, native to much of the United States, of species Geranium carolinianum.

Carolina dognoun

A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.

Carolina geraniumnoun

A type of small annual flowering shrub, native to much of the United States, of species Geranium carolinianum.

Carolina metallic tiger beetlenoun

Tetracha carolina, a species of tiger beetle.

Carolina Reapernoun

A kind of very hot red chili pepper with a gnarled, lumpy pod and a scythe-like tail.

Carolinasname

North Carolina and South Carolina, collectively.

Carolineadj

Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”).

Caroline Islandsname

A widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea, politically divided between the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.

Carolinesnoun

plural of Caroline

carolingverb

present participle and gerund of carol

Carolingianadj

Of or pertaining to the Carolings, the members of a Frankish dynasty, descended from Charles Martel, which arose from the Pippinid and Arnulfingian clans in the 7th century and ruled parts of western Europe until the 9th century, reaching its peak under Martel's grandson Charlemagne.

Carolingian minusculenoun

A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.

Carolingianistnoun

An expert in the Carolingian period.

Carolinianadj

Of, or pertaining to, the Carolinas (North Carolina or South Carolina).

caroliniumnoun

A supposed chemical element isolated from thorium.

carollernoun

Synonym of caroler; a carol singer

carollestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of carol

carollethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of carol

Carolloname

A surname from Italian.

Carolusnoun

An old English gold coin, worth 20 (or later 23) shillings.

Carolus dollarnoun

A Spanish-American peso or piece of eight issued by Charles III (1759–88) and Charles IV (1788–1808) of Spain.

Carolynname

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century.

caromnoun

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

caromedverb

simple past and past participle of carom

caronnoun

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