* C Sign words. Another list of C words in ASL pulled from an online dictionary used to double check, all these words are common.
*ça ne fait rien: never mind
*Ça plane pour moi: that smooth, sails, glides flies, for me. This song is now playing in two commercials presently, Fitbit, Johnny Walker also movies, Wolf of Wall Street, We'll Never Have Paris, Ruby Sparks, Eurotrip, Beerfest, 127 Hours, Jackass 3.5, Gossip Girl, and another Pepsi commercial.
* cabbotage: transport of goods or passengers between two places in the same country by a transport operator from another country.
* cablinasian: It goes back to April 1997 when he famously took a nine-iron to the face of blacks by telling Oprah Winfrey on her couch that he wasn’t black. He said he wasn’t white, either. He said, given that his father is black and that his mother is Asian, he spent his youth inventing a word for himself called “Cablinasian.” Just like that, in the hearts of many African-Americans, Woods was on his own.
* cadenza: a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music, in the armed services, a military cadence or cadence call is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military , cadenza is a mixed a cappella choir at Cambridge University in the UK. Originally founded in 1997 as a small jazz choir with a conductor and a band, in 2002 it was changed to a smaller close-harmony a cappella group to sing arrangements that include a wider repertoire ranging from pop to jazz ...personnel while running or ...In music, a cadenza (from cadenza, meaning cadence) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist ...
* calenture A tropical fever once believed to be caused by the heat. Amulets and incantations may be needed to purge so ghostly a calenture. [Spanish calentura, from calentar, to heat, from Latin calns, calent-, present participle of calre, to be warm;]
* calliope: A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or more recently compressed air, through large whistles, originally locomotive whistles.
A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles around. There is no provision for varying the tone or loudness. The only expression possible is the timing and duration of the notes. The name originates from the name of Calliope, pronounced /kəˈlaɪ.əpiː/, from the Greek for beautiful voiced. In Greek mythology, Calliope was a daughter of Zeus, chief of the Muses and mother of Orpheus. The pronunciation of the instrument name varies, often pronounced /ˈkæli.oʊp/ with the stress on the first and last syllables. The steam calliope is also known as a steam organ or steam piano. The air-driven calliope is sometimes called a calliaphone, the name given it by its inventor, however the Calliaphone name is registered by a particular manufacturer.
* callipygian: having finely developed buttocks; "the quest for the callipygian ideal" The Callipygian Venus or Venus Kallipygos, (Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος Aphrodite Kallipygos, "Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks" ), is a type of nude female statue of the Hellenistic era. ...
* callithumpian: noisy parade
* calque: to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. itself is a loanword from a French noun, and derives from the verb "calquer" ("to trace", "to copy")
* calumny: a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation, the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation
* campanology: the art of bell ringing
* canard: unfounded rumor or story, small winglike projection attached to an aircraft to provide extra stability or control sometimes replacing a tail.
* cannulated: cannulated cow, hole in its side to study.
* Capezio slipper: dance shoe
* Capo di tutti capi: boss of all bosses
* capriccio: instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation, caprice (sometimes plural: caprices, capri or, in Italian, capricci), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature. painting, a capriccio is an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological remains and/or other architectural elements in ... the final opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music", landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting; A piece of music, usually fairly free in form.
* carbuncular: extensive skin eruption, similar to but larger than a boil, with several openings: caused by staphylococcal infection, (of buildings) ugly, a rounded gemstone, esp a garnet cut without facets, a dark reddish-greyish-brown color
* carillion: set of bells hung in a bell tower, a recitation with orchestral accompaniment written by the English composer Edward Elgar as his Op. 75, in 1914, former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. a musical instrument (usually housed in the bell towers of church towers, belfries, or in municipal buildings)
* carrel: A small cubicle with a desk for the use of a reader or student in a library. A small enclosure or study in a cloister
* Carrington event: Refers to a massive ejection of plasma that hits the earth’s magnetic field. British astronomer Richard Carrington observed such an event in 1859. When the plasma hit the earth, the auroras stretched from the polar areas to close to the equators. The telegraph system was strongly affected. The problem with such an event happeneing today is that society is far more dependednt on networks that would are more vulnerable to serious (and often permanent) damage from an event of this magnitude. Primarily the electrical grid.
* cartographic
* casque: French for helmet. Enlargment on upper mandible of the bill of some species of birds including many hornbills. Hornbill ivory. A large growth on the skulls of Cassowaries.
*cassoulet
* catamite: Warren Cup (photo of early statue) depicting sexual intimacy between an "erastes" (a young man) or a "pederast" and his "eromenos" (his beloved boy) or "catamite" Roman Ganymede as a puer delicatus, with the eagle of Jove In its modern usage the term catamite refers to the passive partner in anal intercourse. In its ancient usage a catamite (Latin catamitus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of a young man in ancient Rome, usually in a pederastic friendship. It was usually a term of affection and literally means "Ganymede" in Latin. It was frequently used as a term of insult. The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer. The Etruscan form of the name was Catmite, from an alternate Greek form of the name, Gadymedes.
* catarrh: Excessive discharge or buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.
* catpurse: pickpocket, cutpurse, dip (a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places)
* caudillismo: a system of government by a caudillo. a state or government in which a caudillo exercises absolute power.
* caudillo: Spanish word for "leader" usually describes a political-military leader at the head of an authoritarian power. The term translates into English as leader or chief, or more pejoratively as warlord, dictator or strongman. Caudillo was the term used to refer to the charismatic populist leaders among the people. Caudillos have influenced a sizable portion of the history of Latin America.
The term originally referred to military power: Indíbil and Mandonio, Viriathus, Almanzor (sometimes in the modern historiography), Don Pelayo and other fighters of the Reconquista, even Simón Bolivar, Francisco Franco, etc., but in Latin America another sense has developed: the liberal caudillo lawyer and politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was honored with the title "Caudillo of The Colombian People"
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