English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 2 of 872
Abbreviation of care of, used to identify an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.
A genre of British rock music most prominent in the late eighties and early nineties, with a lo-fi aesthetic, unconventional instrumentation and romantic lyrics.
An object-oriented programming language, resembling Java in some respects, developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET Framework initiative.
Coffee through nose to keyboard: suggesting that the user is laughing hard while reading a posted message.
Synonym of ca' canny (“policy of caution and taking one's time, in industrial disputes”).
A South American plant, Piper umbellatum (formerly Pothomorphe umbellata), with medicinal roots.
A hallucinogen, obtained from the South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, used medicinally by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
A sparse, thorny wooded biome of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees.
A device in the cab of a locomotive or train which displays the status of signals along the track.
A rail safety system installed in the driving cab of a train, which gives information to the train driver on track status and condition.
The obligation of a barrister (in certain jurisdictions) to accept any work in a field in which they profess themselves competent to practise, at a court at which they normally appear, and at their usual rates.
A medieval Spanish land tenure equivalent to a knight's fee, held under an obligation for military service.
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 2. 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.