Nouns starting with C

• climb-down — Noun – English ～ a retraction of a previously held position
• Churchill Downs — Noun – English ～ a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Louisville; site of the Kentucky Derby
• Conan Doyle — Noun – English ～ British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
• Callisaurus draconoides — Noun – English ～ swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico
• closet drama — Noun – English ～ drama more suitable for reading that for performing
• Central Dravidian — Noun – English ～ a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India
• cutaway drawing — Noun – English ～ a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
• civilian dress — Noun – English ～ ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.
• cocktail dress — Noun – English ～ a dress suitable for formal occasions
• cross-dresser — Noun – English ～ someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
• cross dressing — Noun – English ～ the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex
• clothes drier — Noun – English ～ a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing
• continental drift — Noun – English ～ the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics)
• core drill — Noun – English ～ a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole
• cattle drive — Noun – English ～ driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers)
• CD drive — Noun – English ～ a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system
• Camelus dromedarius — Noun – English ～ one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
• cough drop — Noun – English ～ a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat
• coral drops — Noun – English ～ half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers
• cytotoxic drug — Noun – English ～ any drug that has a toxic effect on cells; commonly used in chemotherapy to inhibit the proliferation of cancerous cells

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