Nouns starting with C

• cayenne pepper — Noun – English ～ a long and often twisted hot red pepper
• cayenne pepper — Noun – English ～ plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
• cayenne pepper — Noun – English ～ ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum
• cone pepper — Noun – English ～ plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental
• count per minute — Noun – English ～ frequency per minute
• climbing perch — Noun – English ～ a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land
• Comptonia peregrina — Noun – English ～ deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers
• clostridium perfringens — Noun – English ～ anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon
• class period — Noun – English ～ a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study
• Carboniferous period — Noun – English ～ from 345 million to 280 million years ago
• Cambrian period — Noun – English ～ from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates
• Cretaceous period — Noun – English ～ from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
• computer peripheral — Noun – English ～ electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer; "disk drives and printers are important peripherals"
• Cape periwinkle — Noun – English ～ commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
• Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman — Noun – English ～ United States feminist (1860-1935)
• Commodore Perry — Noun – English ～ United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
• Campanula persicifolia — Noun – English ～ perennial European bellflower with racemose white or blue flowers
• common person — Noun – English ～ a person who holds no title
• clumsy person — Noun – English ～ a person with poor motor coordination
• creative person — Noun – English ～ a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

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