English Words: C

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cakerienoun

Alternative form of cakery (“cake shop”).

cakerynoun

A cake shop.

cakesnoun

plural of cake

cakes and alenoun

The simple material pleasures of life.

cakeshopnoun

Alternative form of cake shop.

cakesiclenoun

A snack consisting of cake and frosting prepared in a popsicle mold and served on a stick.

cakestandnoun

A stand for a cake.

cakettenoun

A small cake of animal feed.

cakeversenoun

An omegaverse variant genre with "cakes" and "forks".

cakewalknoun

A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.

cakewalkernoun

A performer of the cakewalk dance.

cakewardsadv

Towards cake.

cakewomannoun

A woman who sells cakes.

cakeyadj

Alternative spelling of caky.

cakilyadv

In a caky way.

cakinessnoun

The quality of being caky.

cakingverb

present participle and gerund of cake

cakingsnoun

plural of caking

cakyadj

Resembling cake in texture.

calnoun

Clipping of calorie.

Cal kingnoun

A California king (a large bed measuring 72 × 84 inches).

Cal Statesname

Used to denote multiple campuses of the California State University.

Cal-Mexnoun

A Californian style of Mexican food.

Cal-Nev-Ariname

A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Calabarname

The largest city and state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria.

Calabar beannoun

A seed of a tropical leguminous plant of species Physostigma venenosum of tropical Africa, poisonous to humans.

calabarinenoun

An alkaloid similar to physostigmine, and occurring with it in the Calabar bean.

Calabarzonname

An administrative region of the Philippines, including the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon.

Calabasasname

A city in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California, United States on the northwest edge of the city of Los Angeles

calabashnoun

A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.

calabazanoun

A burr gherkin.

Calabi-Yau manifoldnoun

A kind of manifold having properties, such as Ricci flatness, that yield applications in theoretical physics.

calaboosenoun

A prison or jail/gaol.

calabozonoun

calaboose; prison

calabresenoun

Alternative letter-case form of Calabrese (“a particular type of sprouting broccoli”).

Calabresianadj

Of or relating to Guido Calabresi (born 1932), American legal scholar and judge.

Calabrianame

A peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy.

Calabrianadj

Of, from or relating to Calabria, Italy.

calachuchinoun

frangipani; plumeria

caladenoun

A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.

caladiumnoun

Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar of Caladium bicolor.

caladriusnoun

A mythical bird that had healing powers.

Calafatname

A city in Dolj County, in southern Romania.

calafatenoun

The barberry, shrubs belonging to the genus Berberis.

Calahanname

A surname from Irish.

Calahooname

A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.

Calaisname

A city in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.

calamanconoun

A glossy woolen fabric with striped or checkered designs.

calamandernoun

A wood from India and Sri Lanka, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially Diospyros quaesita, used to make furniture.

calamansinoun

Synonym of calamondin.

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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 20. 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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