English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 77 of 872
Inflammation of a capsule, such as the shoulder capsule or that of the crystalline lens.
An incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
One of the thin, prehensile food-gathering and sensory tentacles of the Scaphopoda (tusk shells).
A form of cheating in which the jockey deliberately pulls his horse back so that it does not win.
A fictional character created as a knock-off of another character whose copyright is owned by a separate entity.
A person who is happy to criticize decisions with the benefit of hindsight, but did nothing to stop those decisions being made at the time.
A heroic person, particularly one with exaggerated bravery and leadership characteristics.
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 77. 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.