Nouns starting with C

• city university — Noun – English ～ an urban university in a large city
• Cambridge University — Noun – English ～ a university in England
• cruel and unusual punishment — Noun – English ～ punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
• change-up — Noun – English ～ a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball
• cut-up — Noun – English ～ someone who plays practical jokes on others
• clouding up — Noun – English ～ the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky
• chin-up — Noun – English ～ an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar
• call up — Noun – English ～ an order to report for military duty
• caller-up — Noun – English ～ the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
• coughing up — Noun – English ～ the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
• cover-up — Noun – English ～ concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public
• crack-up — Noun – English ～ a mental or physical breakdown
• coming upon — Noun – English ～ a casual meeting with a person or thing
• Caryota urens — Noun – English ～ fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
• Cnidoscolus urens — Noun – English ～ a stinging herb of tropical America
• coffee urn — Noun – English ～ an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot
• Centrocercus urophasianus — Noun – English ～ large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America
• Callorhinus ursinus — Noun – English ～ of Pacific coast from Alaska southward to California
• capital of Uruguay — Noun – English ～ the capital and largest city of Uruguay; a cosmopolitan city and one of the busiest ports in South America
• context of use — Noun – English ～ discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

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