Nouns in english starting with C

• cadetship — Noun – English ～ the position of cadet
• cadger — Noun – English ～ someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
• cadiz — Noun – English ～ an ancient port city in southwestern Spain
• cadmium — Noun – English ～ a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
• cadmus — Noun – English ～ (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
• Cadra — Noun – English ～ a genus of Pyralidae
• cadre — Noun – English ～ a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
• cadre — Noun – English ～ a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
• caduceus — Noun – English ～ an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes
• Caeciliadae — Noun – English ～ coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
• caecilian — Noun – English ～ any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
• Caeciliidae — Noun – English ～ coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians
• caecum — Noun – English ～ the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum"
• caelum — Noun – English ～ a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Columba and Eridanus
• caenogenesis — Noun – English ～ introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
• Caenolestes — Noun – English ～ type genus of the family Caenolestidae
• Caenolestidae — Noun – English ～ small marsupials of southern South America
• Caesalpinia bonduc — Noun – English ～ tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
• Caesalpinia — Noun – English ～ small spiny tropical trees or shrubs; includes the small genus or subgenus Poinciana
• Caesalpinia bonducella — Noun – English ～ tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries

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