Nouns starting with C

• calpack — Noun – English ～ a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus
• calpe — Noun – English ～ location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
• calque — Noun – English ～ an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language; "`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'"
• Caltha — Noun – English ～ a genus of Caltha
• caltrop — Noun – English ～ a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
• caltrop — Noun – English ～ tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
• caltrop — Noun – English ～ Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
• calumet — Noun – English ～ a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace)
• calumniation — Noun – English ～ a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
• calumny — Noun – English ～ an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
• calumny — Noun – English ～ a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
• Calvados — Noun – English ～ dry apple brandy made in Normandy
• calvados — Noun – Danish ～ fransk æblebrændevin fra departementet Calvados i ...
• calvaria — Noun – English ～ the dome of the skull
• calvary — Noun – English ～ a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
• calvary — Noun – English ～ any experience that causes intense suffering
• Calvatia — Noun – English ～ genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores
• Calvin — Noun – English ～ Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
• Calvin — Noun – English ～ United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)
• calving — Noun – English ～ giving birth to a calf

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