Nouns starting with C

• Canadian red pine — Noun – English ～ pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark
• congo red — Noun – English ～ a red-brown azo dye especially as a chemical pH indicator (congo red is red in basic and blue in acidic solutions)
• California redbud — Noun – English ～ shrub of western United States having pink or crimson flowers; often forms thickets
• cyclic redundancy check — Noun – English ～ an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
• California redwood — Noun – English ～ lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats
• coast redwood — Noun – English ～ lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats
• cane reed — Noun – English ～ tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets
• common reed — Noun – English ～ tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts
• coral reef — Noun – English ～ a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
• Capitol Reef National Park — Noun – English ～ a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife
• character reference — Noun – English ～ a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"
• cross-reference — Noun – English ～ a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work
• coefficient of reflection — Noun – English ～ the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface
• conditioned reflex — Noun – English ～ an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus
• conditional reflex — Noun – English ～ an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus
• Counter Reformation — Noun – English ～ the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected); many leaders were Jesuits
• Cynoscion regalis — Noun – English ～ food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out
• Cypripedium reginae — Noun – English ～ pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
• cortical region — Noun – English ～ any of various regions of the cerebral cortex
• cash register — Noun – English ～ a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

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