English Words: C

43,570 words · Page 156 of 872

Cawthornname

A surname.

Cawthornename

A placename:

CAXnoun

Abbreviation of central axis.

caxirinoun

An intoxicating alcoholic drink prepared from manioc (cassava), consumed in some South American Indian cultures, especially in Suriname and Guyana.

caxirolanoun

A Brazilian percussion instrument consisting of a closed plastic basket with a flat bottom filled with small synthetic particles. It is based on the caxixi.

caxixinoun

A small, indirectly struck idiophone filled with seeds, commonly used in Brazil.

caxonnoun

A kind of wig.

Caxtonname

A surname.

Caxtonianadj

Of or relating to William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491), who introduced the printing press into England.

caynoun

A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

Cayaname

A surname from French.

Cayabyabname

A surname from Pangasinan.

caycaynoun

A layered biscuit rolled in toasted peanuts and honey or sugar syrup.

Cayceanadj

Of or pertaining to Edgar Cayce (1877–1945), American spiritualist and claimed psychic.

Caydenname

A male given name originating as a coinage.

cayennenoun

Ellipsis of cayenne pepper.

cayenne peppernoun

Any of several very hot chilli peppers.

cayennedadj

Spiced with cayenne.

Cayesname

A seaport and commune of Cayes borough, Sud department, Haiti.

caygottenoun

a coyote

Cayleename

A female given name.

Cayley complexnoun

A 2-dimensional CW complex encoding information about a group and its presentation.

Cayley graphnoun

A graph (collection of vertices and edges) encoding information about a group and its generators.

Cayley's formulanoun

A formula for the number of spanning trees of a complete graph of n vertices: nⁿ⁻².

Cayley's theoremname

The theorem stating that every group G is isomorphic to a subgroup of the symmetric group acting on G.

Cayley-Dickson constructionname

A construction that produces a sequence of Cayley-Dickson algebras: algebras over the field of real numbers, each with twice the dimension of the previous one.

Cayleyanadj

Of or relating to Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), British mathematician.

Caylorname

A surname.

caymannoun

Alternative spelling of caiman.

Cayman Bracname

An island and district of the Cayman Islands.

Cayman Islandsname

Three islands constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea.

Caymanianadj

Of, from, or pertaining to the Cayman Islands, or the Caymanian people.

Caymansname

Synonym of Cayman Islands, three islands in the Caribbean Sea constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

cayonoun

A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.

Cayo Largoname

An island.

cayolaquenoun

Synonym of lakawood.

Caysonname

A male given name.

caytaxinnoun

A protein, mutations of which cause a variety of cerebellar diseases such as Cayman ataxia

Caytonname

A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA0583).

caytoniaceousadj

Of or relating to the Caytoniaceae.

caytonialeannoun

Any seed-bearing, fernlike plant of the order Caytoniales

cayucanoun

A type of dugout canoe of South America.

cayuconoun

A sort of canoe or kayak.

Cayuganoun

A member of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Cayuga Countyname

One of 62 counties in New York, United States. County seat: Auburn.

cayusenoun

A small Indian horse or pony.

Cazname

A diminutive of the female given name Carol.

Cazauxname

A village in Ariège department, France.

Cazavetname

A village in Ariège department, France.

Cazayouxname

A surname from French.

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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 156. 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.

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