Nouns in english starting with C

• caterwaul — Noun – English ～ the yowling sound made by a cat in heat
• catfish — Noun – English ～ large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
• catfish — Noun – English ～ any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
• catfish — Noun – English ～ flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
• catgut — Noun – English ～ a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
• catgut — Noun – English ～ perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
• Catha — Noun – English ～ a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers
• Catharacta — Noun – English ～ skuas
• Catharanthus — Noun – English ～ small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca
• Cathari — Noun – English ～ a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
• Catharism — Noun – English ～ a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
• cathars — Noun – English ～ a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
• catharsis — Noun – English ～ purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
• catharsis — Noun – English ～ (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
• Cathartes aura — Noun – English ～ a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
• cathartes — Noun – English ～ type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures
• cathartic — Noun – English ～ a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
• cathartid — Noun – English ～ large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
• Cathartidae — Noun – English ～ condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures
• cathay — Noun – English ～ a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

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