English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 173 of 872
A hand tool used to prepare a workpiece prior to drilling a hole. It typically compresses and then suddenly releases a spring, creating a small indentation that, in turn, guides and centers the drill.
The selection by lot of every hundredth man (of an army or group of prisoners or mutineers) for execution.
A measure of sound intensity that is one hundredth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale.
A person whose net worth is greater than one hundred billion (10¹¹) dollars, or other currency.
A derived unit of measure for absorbed dose of radiation, equal to the hundredth part (1%) of a gray, that is, 0.01 Gy.
Somebody whose wealth is greater than one centillion (10³⁰³) units of the local currency; an extremely rich person.
The ordinal form of the number one centillion (10³⁰³ short scale, or 10⁶⁰⁰ long scale).
A system of units formerly used in physics (now replaced by the SI system), in which the basic units of length, mass and time were respectively centimetre, gram, and second.
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 173. 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.