English words: C

1959 words under C; 901–1000 on this page.

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• cohort noun (a cohort, cohorts)
  A cohort is a group of people who have something in common, such as the same age or starting school together.
• coil noun (a coil, coils); verb (coil, coils, coiled, coiling)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A series of rings or loops made by winding something long (a coil of rope).
• coiled adjective (coiled); verb, past of coil…
  Coiled means wound into rings or circles, one on top of another, like a spring or a rope.
• coin noun (coin, coins); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A coin is a small, flat, round piece of metal used as money.
• coinage noun (coinage, uncountable; a coinage, coinages)
  The coins used in a country; its system of money (decimal coinage).
• coincide verb (coincide, coincides, coincided, coinciding); nouns…
  To happen at the same time as something else (My birthday coincides with the holiday).
• coincidence noun (a coincidence, coincidences; coincidence, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  When two things happen at the same time or in a surprising way by chance, without being planned (What a coincidence!).
• coition nounJewish tradition
  Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.
• coke noun (coke; a Coke, Cokes — trademark); noun (coke — slang)
  Coke (with a capital C) is short for Coca-Cola, a fizzy drink.
• col noun (a col, cols); abbreviation…
  The lowest point on a ridge between two mountain peaks, often used as a pass to cross the mountains.
• cola noun (cola, colas; a cola — a can or glass of it)
  A sweet, fizzy, brown soft drink, flavoured partly with the kola nut and usually containing caffeine.
• colander noun (a colander, colanders)
  A colander is a kitchen bowl full of small holes, used for draining water from food such as pasta or for washing vegetables.
• cold adjective (cold, colder, coldest); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Having a low temperature; not warm: "cold water".
• coldly adverb (coldly)
  In an unfriendly way, without warmth or kindness.
• coldness noun (coldness — uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Coldness is the state of being cold, having a low temperature («the coldness of the water»).
• cole noun (cole, uncountable; coles); also part of «coleslaw»
  Cole is an old word for cabbage and the plants in the cabbage family, such as kale.
• colic noun (colic, uncountable)
  Colic is bad pain in the tummy, especially when a young baby cries for a long time for no clear reason, often in the evenings.
• collaborate verb…
  To work together with other people to make something or reach a shared goal: «We collaborated on the poster».
• collaboration noun (collaboration; a collaboration, collaborations)
  Working together with others to make or do something.
• collaborative adjective…
  Done by people working together, not alone: «a collaborative project».
• collapse verb (collapse, collapses, collapsed, collapsing); noun…
  To fall down or fall in suddenly, like a building, bridge or tent.
• collapsible adjective (collapsible)
  Made so that it can be folded up or pushed down into a smaller shape when not being used (a collapsible chair, a collapsible water bottle).
• collar noun (a collar, collars); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A collar is the part of a shirt, coat or dress that goes round the neck.
• collarbone noun (a collarbone, collarbones)
  The collarbone is one of two long thin bones at the front of your body, running from the top of your chest to each shoulder.
• collate verbJewish tradition
  To compare texts carefully to find the differences between them.
• collateral noun (collateral — uncountable); adjective (collateral)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Collateral is something valuable, like a house, that you promise to give to a bank if you cannot pay back a loan.
• collation noun (plural collations)
  A collation is a light meal, a snack set out for guests.
• colleague noun (a colleague, colleagues)
  A colleague is a person you work with, especially in a job or profession.
• collect verb (collect, collects, collected, collecting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To collect is to gather things together into one place.
• collected verb (collect, collects, collected, collecting); adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Collected is the past of collect: gathered together.
• collection noun (collection, collections); verb collecteveryday · Jewish tradition
  A collection is a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps or shells.
• collective adjective (collective); noun (a collective, collectives)
  Done or shared by all members of a group together.
• collectively adverb (collectively)
  Collectively means all together, as a group.
• collectivisation noun…
  The forcing of farmers to give up their own land and animals and join big farms run by the state, as in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s…
• collector noun (a collector, collectors)
  A collector is a person who collects things of one kind as a hobby, such as stamps, coins, cards or shells.
• college noun (a college, colleges; college, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A place of education after school, where people study for qualifications or a trade.
• collide verb (collide, collides, collided, colliding)
  To collide is to crash into something or someone while moving: «Two cars collided.».
• collie noun (a collie, collies)
  A breed of dog with a long pointed nose and thick fur, first used in Scotland to herd sheep.
• collins proper noun (Collins — a surname; Collins Dictionary); noun…
  Collins is a common surname in Ireland, the UK, the USA and Australia, from the old Irish and English family names.
• collision noun (a collision, collisions); from the verb collide…
  A collision is when two or more things crash into each other while moving, like cars, people or balls.
• colloquial adjective (colloquial; more colloquial); adverb form…
  Colloquial language is the informal, everyday way people talk with friends and family, not the careful language of books, letters and exams.
• colloquially adverb (colloquially); from «colloquial»
  In everyday, informal speech, not in formal writing: «A television is colloquially called a telly».
• colobus noun (a colobus, colobuses; also colobus monkey)
  A slender African monkey with long silky fur, a long tail and only a stump instead of a thumb; the best-known kind is black and white.
• cologne noun (cologne, uncountable; a cologne, colognes); a name…
  A light perfume, often for men, also called eau de cologne.
• colon noun (a colon, colons)
  A colon is the punctuation mark (:) that introduces a list, an explanation or an example: «You will need: a pen, a ruler and glue».
• colonel noun (colonel, colonels)
  A high-ranking officer in the army, air force or marines, above a major and below a general.
• colonial adjective (colonial); noun (a colonial, colonials — old use)
  Colonial describes things to do with a colony, a land ruled by another, faraway country.
• colonisation noun (colonisation; US colonization)
  When one country takes control of another land and sends people to live there, often taking power from the people already living there.
• colonise verb (colonise, colonises, colonised, colonising); US…
  To colonise a place means a country sends people to settle there and takes control of the land, often from the people already living there.
• colonised verb past form of colonise…
  When a country colonised a land, it took control of it and sent its people to live there, often taking the land from the people already…
• coloniser noun (a coloniser, colonisers); US spelling colonizer
  A country or person that takes control of another land, settles there and rules the people who already live there.
• colonist noun (a colonist, colonists)
  A colonist is a person who goes to live in a new land that is ruled by their home country, or who settles a new colony.
• colonized verb (colonize, colonizes, colonized, colonizing)
  To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country.
• colonnade noun (plural colonnades)
  A colonnade is a row of tall pillars, called columns, standing along the front or side of a building, with a roof over them.
• colony noun (a colony, colonies)
  A group of animals or plants of one kind that live together: a colony of ants, a bat colony.
• color noun (a color, colors); verb…
  Color is what we see when light of different kinds reaches our eyes, such as red, blue, green or yellow.
• coloration noun (coloration — mostly uncountable)
  Coloration is the pattern and colours on an animal or plant.
• colored adjective (colored; British coloured); verb…
  Colored means having a color, or not plain white or black.
• colors noun (colors, plural of «color»; US spelling); verb…
  Colors is the plural of «color», the qualities like red, blue and yellow that we see.
• colossal adjective (colossal)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Colossal means extremely large, huge, enormous.
• colossus noun (a colossus, colossi or colossuses); a name…
  A huge statue, much bigger than life size.
• colour noun (colour, colours); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Colour is what you see as red, blue, green, yellow and so on.
• colouration noun (colouration, uncountable; US spelling coloration)
  Colouration is the pattern and mix of colours on an animal or plant, such as the stripes of a tiger or the spots on a ladybird.
• colourful adjective…
  Colourful means having many bright colours.
• colouring noun (colouring, colourings; US spelling coloring); verb…
  The colour or colours of something, especially of a person's skin, hair and eyes or an animal's fur or feathers: «a fox's red colouring».
• colourless adjective (colourless; US «colorless»)
  Colourless means having no colour at all, like clear water or air.
• colt noun (plural colts)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A colt is a young male horse, especially one under four years old.
• columbian adjective (Columbian); noun (a Columbian — rare)
  To do with Christopher Columbus (as in pre-Columbian, before Columbus reached the Americas).
• column noun (column, columns)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A column is a line of things going straight up and down, one under another.
• comanche noun, a name…
  The Comanche are a Native American people of the southern Great Plains (today mainly Oklahoma, USA), famous in history as expert horse…
• comb noun (comb, combs); verb (comb, combs, combed, combing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A comb is a flat strip with a row of thin teeth used to tidy your hair.
• combat noun (combat — usually uncountable); verb…
  Combat is fighting, especially between soldiers in war.
• combatant noun (a combatant, combatants); adjective combatant
  A person, army or country that takes part in fighting in a war or battle.
• combative adjective (combative, more combative, most combative)
  Combative means ready and eager to fight or argue.
• combination noun (a combination, combinations; combination, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A combination is two or more things joined or mixed together, like a combination of colours or flavours.
• combine verb (combine, combines, combined, combining); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To combine is to join or mix two or more things together to make one: «Combine the flour and sugar.».
• combined adjective; verb (combine, combines, combined, combining)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Combined means put together into one: «their combined score».
• combo noun (a combo, combos) — informal
  A combination of things that go together, like a meal deal of burger, chips and drink.
• combust verb (combust, combusts, combusted, combusting)
  To burn, or to catch fire, especially through a chemical reaction with oxygen.
• combustion noun (combustion, uncountable)
  Combustion is burning: a chemical reaction when a fuel joins with oxygen and gives out heat and light.
• come verb (come, comes, came, coming)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here!
• comeback noun (a comeback, comebacks); verb phrase…
  A comeback is when someone or something becomes successful or popular again after a bad time: the team made a great comeback.
• comedian noun (a comedian, comedians)
  A comedian is a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or doing funny things, on stage, on TV or in films.
• comedy noun (comedy, uncountable; a comedy, comedies)
  Films, plays, shows or stories meant to make people laugh.
• comeliness nounJewish tradition
  Comeliness is the state of being pleasant or pretty to look at.
• comely adjective (comelier, comeliest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Comely means pleasant to look at, pretty or handsome.
• comer noun (plural comers)
  A comer is a person who comes to a place, a newcomer or arrival.
• comest verb, old form used with thou
  «comest» means «you come», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here!
• comestible noun (comestibles, usually plural); adjective (comestible)
  Comestibles are things to eat, food.
• comet noun (a comet, comets)
  A comet is a ball of ice, dust and rock that travels around the Sun.
• cometary adjective (cometary)
  To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the Sun and grow glowing tails when they come near it.
• cometh verb, old form of «comes» (he, she, it)
  «cometh» means «comes», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here!
• comfit noun (a comfit, comfits)
  A small sweet made of a seed or nut, such as aniseed, caraway or an almond, coated in hard sugar.
• comfort noun (comfort — uncountable; a comfort, comforts); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Comfort is a pleasant feeling of being relaxed, warm and free from pain or worry.
• comfortable adjective (comfortable, more comfortable, most comfortable)
  Pleasant to use, sit in, wear or be in, without pain or being too hot, cold or tight.
• comfortably adverb (comfortably; more comfortably)
  In a way that feels relaxed and free from pain or worry: «sitting comfortably».
• comforter noun (a comforter, comforters)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A comforter is a person or thing that comforts someone who is sad or worried.
• comforting adjective (comforting, more comforting, most comforting)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Comforting means making you feel calmer, safer or less sad or worried: comforting words, a comforting hug.
• comfortingly adverbJewish tradition
  In a way that makes someone feel less sad or afraid.
• comfortless adjective
  Comfortless means having no comfort; cold, bare, dark or sad, with nothing to make a person feel better.

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