English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 137 of 872
A difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.
A broad, general word or category that includes many different things, used when grouping diverse items or concepts without being specific.
A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.
The rope that a cowboy uses to rope animals, having a loop on one end with which to capture the animal.
A ditch or drain along the side of a hill or canal, to catch the surface water as it runs off.
Pronunciation spelling of catch, representing Chinese, African, or similarly marked pronunciation.
Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
A bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.
A short line of text designed to catch the eye, especially one used as an advertising slogan.
An annotation or footnote (especially in a manuscript or a catalogue entry), or a marginal mark that points to a footnote
Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
An area from which water drains into a particular lake, river, etc.; the catchment area of a large river includes its tributaries.
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 137. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "C" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.