Nouns starting with C

• common wolffia — Noun – English ～ smallest flowering plants known; of the Americas
• cleaning woman — Noun – English ～ a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
• comfort woman — Noun – English ～ a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman"
• Commission on the Status of Women — Noun – English ～ the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies
• coral-wood — Noun – English ～ East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
• carib wood — Noun – English ～ small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
• Chinese wood oil — Noun – English ～ a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree
• caviuna wood — Noun – English ～ an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
• cabinet wood — Noun – English ～ moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork; "teak and other heavy cabinet wood"
• creeping wood sorrel — Noun – English ～ creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
• common wood sorrel — Noun – English ～ Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
• Comer Vann Woodward — Noun – English ～ United States historian (1908-1999)
• C. Vann Woodward — Noun – English ～ United States historian (1908-1999)
• cotton wool — Noun – English ～ soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
• closed-class word — Noun – English ～ a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
• curse word — Noun – English ～ profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
• cognate word — Noun – English ～ a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
• content word — Noun – English ～ a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
• choice of words — Noun – English ～ the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
• civil rights worker — Noun – English ～ a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

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