English Words: C

43,570 words · Page 80 of 872

Car Festivalname

Ratha Yatra.

car gatenoun

bus stop

car guardnoun

A person who watches over parked cars on the street and helps drivers to find parking places in exchange for money, usually informally.

car hopnoun

A waiter who serves customers sitting in parked cars.

car keynoun

A key used to unlock or start a car.

car mileagenoun

Car miles collectively.

car parknoun

An outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked.

car partnoun

A part that can be fitted to a car, often as a replacement for a worn-out or damaged part.

car radionoun

A radio receiver fitted in a car, typically on or just below the dashboard, sometimes with specific features for use while driving, such as traffic alert interrupts and alternative frequency functions (switching frequencies as one moves in and out of range of transmitters).

car safety seatnoun

Synonym of child safety seat.

car seatnoun

A seat in a motor car.

car sewernoun

A place made unfriendly or dangerous to non-drivers by cars and car infrastructure.

car shednoun

A large building provided for the housing and maintenance of passenger cars or carriages (or coupled trains thereof).

car shownoun

A typically annual or semiannual public event for exhibition of privately owned automobiles, especially classic cars.

car transporternoun

a car carrier

car washnoun

An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation

car wrecknoun

Synonym of car crash.

car-booternoun

A customer or vendor at a car boot sale.

car-centricadj

With cars as the most feasible mode of transport.

car-freeadj

Alternative form of carfree.

car-handedadj

Left-handed.

car-housenoun

A garage or a building for a car, typically separate from a house.

car-phonenoun

Alternative form of car phone.

car-poolernoun

A member of a carpool.

car-sleepernoun

A sleeping car train which also includes vehicles for carrying passengers' motor cars.

car-stickernoun

Synonym of bumper sticker (“a large sticker intended for use on the rear end of a car”)

Caraname

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Cara Caranoun

A kind of red-fleshed early-to-mid-season navel orange.

Cara Sucianame

A river in El Salvador.

Caraballoname

A surname from Spanish.

carabaonoun

A domesticated subspecies of water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis carabanesis.

carabao Englishnoun

Broken English; the English language poorly spoken or written.

carabeefnoun

Meat of the water buffalo or carabao

carabidnoun

Any of the family Carabidae, the ground beetles.

carabidologistnoun

One who studies carabidology.

carabidologynoun

The scientific study of carabid or ground beetles (Carabidae).

carabinnoun

Archaic form of carbine.

carabineverb

To attach via carabiner.

carabineernoun

A cavalry soldier.

carabinernoun

A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.

carabineronoun

A frontier guard (or similar) in Spain or South America.

carabiniernoun

Alternative spelling of carabineer.

carabinierinoun

The national gendarmerie of Italy.

carabusnoun

An ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.

caracalnoun

A type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia, Caracal caracal.

Caracallaname

A Roman emperor who ruled from 211 to 217 C.E.

caracaranoun

Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the subfamily Caracarinae.

Caracasname

The capital city of Venezuela.

Caracasianadj

Of or pertaining to Caracas.

caraccanoun

A 16th-century Portuguese armed merchant ship.

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