English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 11 of 872
A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that they are a human and not a computer program.
To make (a person, an animal, etc.) a captive; to take prisoner; to capture, to subdue.
A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.
A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.
A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.
A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), an Italian painter known for the dramatism of his style and subjects.
A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
A biennial plant of species Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice. (The convention of putting caraway seeds into rye bread sometimes causes confusion about so-called rye seeds.)
A synthetic compound of the benzodiazepine class, used as an anticonvulsant and analgesic drug.
A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant.
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper.
Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.
The state of having carbon dioxide gas dissolved in a liquid; the act or process of creating that state.
Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down.
An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter C contains 43,570 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 872 pages, and you are currently viewing page 11. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
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