Nouns starting with C

• calf love — Noun – English ～ temporary love of an adolescent
• cupboard love — Noun – English ～ a show of affection motivated by selfishness
• courtly love — Noun – English ～ (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers
• chabad-lubavitch — Noun – English ～ a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study
• Clare Booth Luce — Noun – English ～ United States playwright and public official (1902-1987)
• camera lucida — Noun – English ～ an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it
• Cynomys ludovicianus — Noun – English ～ tail is black tipped
• Cyclopterus lumpus — Noun – English ～ clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
• Carolina lupine — Noun – English ～ eastern United States bush pea
• Canis lupus — Noun – English ～ a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America
• Cupressus lusitanica — Noun – English ～ tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa
• Cladrastis lutea — Noun – English ～ small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye
• Cacalia lutea — Noun – English ～ tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
• Calostoma lutescens — Noun – English ～ a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case
• Circaea lutetiana — Noun – English ～ tall evening primrose with inconspicuous flowers
• corpus luteum — Noun – English ～ yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun
• Calochortus luteus — Noun – English ～ mariposa having clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson — Noun – English ～ English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
• class Lycopodiate — Noun – English ～ club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
• class Lycopodineae — Noun – English ～ alternative designation for the class Lycopsida

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