Words in english starting with C

• chew the fat — Verb – English ～ talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
• carry the can — Verb – English ～ accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
• clear the air — Verb – English ～ dispel differences or negative emotions; "The group called a meeting to finally clear the air"
• come out of the closet — Verb – English ～ to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year"
• Charles the Great — Noun – English ～ king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
• Charles the Bald — Noun – English ～ as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
• Chancellor of the Exchequer — Noun – English ～ the British cabinet minister responsible for finance
• Catherine the Great — Noun – English ～ empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
• castle in the air — Noun – English ～ absentminded dreaming while awake
• Cyrus the Elder — Noun – English ～ king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)
• Cyrus the Great — Noun – English ～ king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)
• chute-the-chute — Noun – English ～ elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines)
• Church of the Brethren — Noun – English ～ a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
• coronoid process of the mandible — Noun – English ～ the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle
• Carlos the Jackal — Noun – English ～ Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
• chairman of the board — Noun – English ～ the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation
• central artery of the retina — Noun – English ～ a branch of the ophthalmic artery; enters the eyeball with the optic nerve
• cirrhosis of the liver — Noun – English ～ a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism
• City of the Angels — Noun – English ～ a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States
• capital of the Bahamas — Noun – English ～ the capital of the Bahamas

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