English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 160 of 872
A composite mythical being, combining the head, arms and torso of a woman (more rarely a man) and, from the lower torso down, the tentacles of an octopus or squid as a form of mermaid, sea witch, or sea demon.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, manganese, oxygen, and vanadium.
The Terrorism Confinement Center; a large maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings
One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Tipton. Named after the Cedar River.
Water stained deep brown by tannins and iron, particularly that found in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
A cytidine deaminase inhibitor used in conjunction with decitabine to treat myelodysplastic syndromes.
To withdraw from a military confrontation; to yield control of a battlefield to one's opponent.
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 160. 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.