Nouns starting with C

• Chang Kuo-lao — Noun – English ～ one of the 8 immortals of Taoism
• class Larvacea — Noun – English ～ small free-swimming tunicates; sometimes classified as an order
• Clematis lasiantha — Noun – English ～ clematis of California
• cobbler's last — Noun – English ～ holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
• corpus geniculatum laterale — Noun – English ～ a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex
• Citellus lateralis — Noun – English ～ common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk
• classical Latin — Noun – English ～ the language of educated people in ancient Rome; "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me"
• celestial latitude — Noun – English ～ (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
• Canis latrans — Noun – English ～ small wolf native to western North America
• caffe latte — Noun – English ～ strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
• crystal lattice — Noun – English ～ a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal
• Charles Laughton — Noun – English ～ United States film actor (born in England) (1899-1962)
• cherry laurel — Noun – English ～ frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil
• cherry laurel — Noun – English ～ small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
• California laurel — Noun – English ～ Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
• Charles's law — Noun – English ～ (physics) the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature
• common law — Noun – English ～ a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
• commercial law — Noun – English ～ the body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence
• common law — Noun – English ～ (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
• case law — Noun – English ～ a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"

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