Nouns starting with C

• Chrysanthemum lacustre — Noun – English ～ perennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy
• Cistus ladanifer — Noun – English ～ shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
• Cistus ladanum — Noun – English ～ shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative
• cleaning lady — Noun – English ～ a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
• Celtis laevigata — Noun – English ～ deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood
• Crataegus laevigata — Noun – English ～ thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America
• Chou En-lai — Noun – English ～ Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976)
• café au lait — Noun – Danish ～ (portion) stærk kaffe blandet med varm mælk
• cafe au lait — Noun – English ～ equal parts of coffee and hot milk
• cochon de lait — Noun – English ～ whole young pig suitable for roasting
• Cayuga Lake — Noun – English ～ a glacial lake in central New York; the longest of the Finger Lakes
• Canandaigua Lake — Noun – English ～ a glacial lake in central New York; one of the Finger Lakes
• Coeur d'Alene Lake — Noun – English ～ a lake in northern Idaho
• Chevalier de Lamarck — Noun – English ～ French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
• Charles Lamb — Noun – English ～ English essayist (1775-1834)
• Constant Lambert — Noun – English ～ English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
• class Lamellibranchia — Noun – English ～ oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
• carbon arc lamp — Noun – English ～ has carbon electrodes
• Clatonia lanceolata — Noun – English ～ small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
• Cirsium lanceolatum — Noun – English ～ European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States

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