English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 142 of 872
A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.
A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse.
A psychoactive drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine classes which acts as a stimulant.
An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).
A form of luminescence produced by the bombardment of a metal or a phosphor by electrons (as in a traditional television).
The Catholic Church, which consists of 24 particular churches in full communion with the Pope as the Bishop of Rome.
The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.
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 142. 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.