English Words: C
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Skin dimpling caused by the herniation (protrusion) of subcutaneous adipose tissue (fat within connective tissue), especially on the pelvic area of women.
Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
A complex carbohydrate that forms the main constituent of the cell wall in most plants and is important in the manufacture of numerous products, such as paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and explosives.
An uncommon monoclinic feldspar mineral, barium aluminosilicate, found in contact metamorphic rocks with significant barium content.
Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to ¹⁄_(273.16) of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.
A scale for measuring temperature, with the freezing point of water defined as zero degrees (0 °C) and the boiling point of water defined as one hundred degrees (100 °C).
Acronym of Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, a qualification to teach English.
A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.
A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.
A stylised knot design used in Celtic artwork for decoration, although it can also be constructed as an actual knot built from cord.
The economy of the Republic of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the late-2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fuelled by foreign direct investment.
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 168. 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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