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- CADENZAA part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
- CADETA student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- CADREA frame or framework.
- CAESIUMThe chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.
- CAESIUMSThe chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal.
- CAESURAA pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- CAGEAn enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
- CAJOLETo persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
- CALAMITYAn event resulting in great loss.
- CALDARIUMIn Roman baths, the hottest room, with a plunge-pool. It preceded the tepidarium and frigidarium.
- CALDERAA large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
- CALIGINOUSDark, obscure; murky.
- CALIGOdimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
- CALIGOESdimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
- CALIGOSdimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
- CALIPHATEMonarchical government based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, ruled by a caliph.
- CALLOSITYA callus.
- CALLOUSEmotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
- CALLUSA hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
- CALORIEA non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labelin
- CALQUEA word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
- CALTROPA metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heral
- CALUMNIATETo make hurtful untrue comments about.
- CALUMNIATORA person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
- CALUMNIOUSPossessing the traits of calumny.
- CALUMNYA false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
- CALVARIAThe dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
- CALVARIUMThe upper, domelike portion of the skull (without the lower jaw).
- CALVARYA life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.
- CALVITIESBaldness, the condition of being bald.
- CALXThe substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognise
- CAMBERA 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.
- CAMBISTA banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
- CAMELINEOf or pertaining to camels.
- CAMEOA piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
- CAMERALRelating to a chamber, especially to a judicial or legislative one
- CAMERATIONA vaulting or arching over.
- CAMERATIONSA vaulting or arching over.
- CAMISIAAn ancient kind of shirt or nightgown.
- CAMPAGNAA flat stretch of countryside; open rural plain.
- CAMPAIGNA series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
- CAMPANILEA bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.
- CAMPANOLOGYThe study of bells and their casting, tuning, and ringing.
- CAMPESTRALRelating to open fields or uncultivated land.
- CAMPUSThe grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
- CANADAA traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume equal to 1.7–2.1 liters depending on the area of Portugal, used particularly for wine.
- CANARYA small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- CANCRINEOf or pertaining to crabs.
- CANDELAIn the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency
- CANDELABRUMA candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.
- CANDENTGlowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
- CANDESCENTGlowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.
- CANDIDImpartial and free from prejudice.
- CANDIDAA yeast of the genus Candida, usually specifically Candida albicans
- CANDLEA light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
- CANDORThe state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
- CANESCENTTurning white or gray.
- CANINEOf, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
- CANISTELA tropical tree, Lucuma campechiana, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit.
- CANISTERA cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
- CANITIESThe condition of having gray hair.
- CANONICcanonical
- CANOROUSmelodious
- CANTLEA splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
- CANTORA singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony.
- CANTORISOf the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the cantor's (later precentor's) stall is placed (the left hand side to a person facing the altar);
- CANTRIPA spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
- CANTUSSynonym of superius.
- CAPABLEAble and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
- CAPACITYThe ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
- CAPEA piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
- CAPELINA fish of species Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
- CAPIASAn arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
- CAPILLARYResembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
- CAPITAperson
- CAPITALIZEIn writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
- CAPITOLAny building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
- CAPITULARAn act passed in a chapter.
- CAPITULUMA densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
- CAPLEA horse.
- CAPONA cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
- CAPRIFIGA hermaphrodite fruit, inedible to humans, of certain usually uncultivated species of Ficus, which is the source of the pollen with which fig wasps pollinate edible female fruit in
- CAPRIFOLEThe woodbine or honeysuckle.
- CAPRINEOf or relating to Caprinae (goats, sheep, and certain wild relatives).
- CAPSTANA vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, typically surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for levers for turning it; used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.
- CAPSULEA membranous envelope.
- CAPTAINA chief or leader.
- CAPTIONThe descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- CAPTIOUSThat captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
- CAPTIVITYThe state of being captive.
- CAPTOROne who is holding a captive or captives.
- CAPTUREAn act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- CAPUCHINA monk in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; a Franciscan.
- CAPUTThe head.
- CARAMELA smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
- CARDINALOf fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- CARDITISinflammation of the heart (any or all parts of it).
- CARDONAny of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.
- CARDOONAny member of the species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.
- CAREENTo heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.