Nouns starting with C

• Claes Oldenburg — Noun – English ～ United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)
• class Oligochaeta — Noun – English ～ earthworms
• California olive — Noun – English ～ Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
• Chrysophyllum oliviforme — Noun – English ～ tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit
• Cygnus olor — Noun – English ～ soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated
• capital of Oman — Noun – English ～ a port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman
• Commission on Narcotic Drugs — Noun – English ～ the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic
• come-on — Noun – English ～ qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
• come-on — Noun – English ～ anything that serves as an enticement
• clip-on — Noun – English ～ a device (as an earring, sunglasses, microphone etc.) that is attached by clips
• climbing onion — Noun – English ～ much-branched leafless twining South African herb cultivated as an ornamental for its bright green stems growing from large aboveground bulbs
• class Onychophora — Noun – English ～ enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids
• class Oomycetes — Noun – English ～ nonphotosynthetic fungi that resemble algae and that reproduce by forming oospores; sometimes classified as protoctists
• co-op — Noun – English ～ a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
• cap opener — Noun – English ～ a bottle opener to pry off caps
• can opener — Noun – English ～ a device for cutting cans open
• chess opening — Noun – English ～ a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess; "he memorized all the important chess openings"
• comic opera — Noun – English ～ opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
• chief operating officer — Noun – English ～ the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)
• clandestine operation — Noun – English ～ an intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment

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