Words starting with C that are validated

• cost of capital — Noun – English ～ the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk
• cost-of-living index — Noun – English ～ an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
• cost of living — Noun – English ～ average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing); "a rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation"
• Council of Constance — Noun – English ～ the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
• Council of Economic Advisors — Noun – English ～ an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President
• convolution of Broca — Noun – English ～ the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people
• contract of hazard — Noun – English ～ a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage
• contract of adhesion — Noun – English ～ a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power
• color of law — Noun – English ～ a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law; "the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights"
• colour of law — Noun – English ～ a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law; "the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights"
• College of Cardinals — Noun – English ～ (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope
• current of air — Noun – English ～ air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
• confession of judgment — Noun – English ～ a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings
• confession of judgement — Noun – English ～ a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings
• conflict of interest — Noun – English ～ a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests
• conclusion of law — Noun – English ～ a finding as to the applicability of a rule of law to particular facts
• cross of Calvary — Noun – English ～ a Latin cross set on three steps
• cross of Lorraine — Noun – English ～ a cross with two crossbars, one above and one below the midpoint of the vertical, the lower longer than the upper
• court of assize — Noun – English ～ the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts)
• crack of doom — Noun – English ～ (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives

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