Nouns starting with C that are validated

• citrus whitefly — Noun – English ～ whitefly that attacks citrus trees
• canary whitewood — Noun – English ～ tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work
• constant-width font — Noun – English ～ a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter)
• Canada wild rye — Noun – English ～ North American wild rye
• Charles Wilkes — Noun – English ～ United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877)
• chuck-will's-widow — Noun – English ～ large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States
• Charles William Post — Noun – English ～ United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)
• Clyde William Tombaugh — Noun – English ～ United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997)
• Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood — Noun – English ～ United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986)
• Chester William Nimitz — Noun – English ～ United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966)
• Christoph Willibald von Gluck — Noun – English ～ German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787)
• circle of Willis — Noun – English ～ a ring of arteries at the base of the brain
• creeping willow — Noun – English ～ small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated
• cricket-bat willow — Noun – English ～ Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches
• crack willow — Noun – English ～ large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — Noun – English ～ Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)
• catabatic wind — Noun – English ～ a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air
• chinook wind — Noun – English ～ a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
• creeping windmill grass — Noun – English ～ perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
• casement window — Noun – English ～ a window with one or more casements

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