English Words: C
43,570 words · Page 9 of 872
In a cacophonous manner; in a manner that produces harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
An unbalanced state of mind; a mental or glandular disorder as from a malfunctioning thymus gland.
A soft phosphate of iron occurring in yellowish clumps: hydrated iron aluminum phosphate oxide: (Fe,Al)₂₅(PO₄)₁₇O₆(OH)₁₂·17H₂O.
A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned.
Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.
A bobcat-like creature in North American folklore, said to be covered in spines like a porcupine and to slash cacti at night to release their juices.
The set of Major League Baseball teams which play spring training games in Arizona.
A sound change whereby a sound becomes cacuminal, or pronounced with a retroflexed tongue.
cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy: a form of hereditary stroke disorder
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 9. 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.