English Words: C
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A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
Controlled Ankle Movement walker: an orthose (brace in the form of a boot that provides support, protection and immobilization of the ankle after injury or surgery.
A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros blancoi) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.
A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.
A type of mist found on the west coast of South America by the Atacama Desert, which does not drop rain.
A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
A province of the Bicol Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Pili. Largest city: Naga.
A psychoactive benzodiazepine drug with anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, hypnotic and skeletal muscle relaxant properties.
A device reportedly used by the Catuquinaru to communicate, consisting of a wooden drum, filled with various materials and half-buried; when one was beaten, the vibrations (travelling through the earth) could be heard on the devices in other villages up to 1.5 km away.
The part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
A pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting of a melody where a note is skipped from (typically by an interval of a third) in one direction (either going up or down in pitch) followed by the note skipped to, and then by motion in the opposite direction, and where either the note skipped from is distinguished as a dissonance or the note skipped to is distinguished as a non-harmonic or non-chordal tone.
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 39. 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.