common ragweed
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally
cable railway
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
cog railway
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction
curtain raiser
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ any preliminary activity
curtain raiser
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a short play presented before the main play
curtain raising
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews"
croupier's rake
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a small rake used by a croupier to move chips around on the table
crepitation rale
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure
Cytisus ramentaceus
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds; Yugoslavia; sometimes placed in genus Cytisus
cattle ranch
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
Cascade Range
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
Coast Range
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California
Cladonia rangiferina
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans
Cedar Rapids
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a city in eastern Iowa
Campanula rapunculoides
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers
Campanula rapunculus
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad
cat and rat
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first
chinchilla rat
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes
cotton rat
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America
cut-rate
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ costing less than standard price; "buying bargain-priced clothes for the children"; "cut-rate goods"