Words in english starting with C

• cusk-eel — Noun – English ～ elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
• conger eel — Noun – English ～ large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
• congo eel — Noun – English ～ aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States
• Coriolis effect — Noun – English ～ (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
• coattails effect — Noun – English ～ (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party; "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"
• cost-effective — Adjective – English ～ productive relative to the cost
• cost-efficient — Adjective – English ～ productive relative to the cost
• chocolate egg — Noun – English ～ egg-shaped chocolate candy
• candy egg — Noun – English ～ egg-shaped candy
• coddled egg — Noun – English ～ egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water
• cock's eggs — Noun – English ～ weedy vine of Argentina having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit
• cattle egret — Noun – English ～ small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals
• Christiaan Eijkman — Noun – English ～ Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)
• cartridge ejector — Noun – English ～ a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing
• common eland — Noun – English ～ dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa
• Cervus elaphus canadensis — Noun – English ～ large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
• Cervus elaphus — Noun – English ～ common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
• common elder — Noun – English ～ a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
• California box elder — Noun – English ～ maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature
• current electricity — Noun – English ～ a flow of electric charge

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