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- cassingle — a cassette single
- cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- cast back — to turn (the mind) to the past
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castaneda — Carlos, 1925–1998, U.S. anthropologist and writer, born in Peru.
- castanets — Castanets are a Spanish musical instrument consisting of two small round pieces of wood or plastic held together by a cord. You hold the castanets in your hand and knock the pieces together with your fingers.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- casteless — having no caste
- castellan — a keeper or governor of a castle
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
- castilian — the Spanish dialect of Castile; the standard form of European Spanish
- castlebar — the county town of Co Mayo, Republic of Ireland; site of the battle (1798) between the French and British known as Castlebar Races. Pop: 11 371 (2002)
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- castrated — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castrater — a person who castrates
- castrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castrate.
- castrator — One who castrates (gelds or neuters).
- castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- castroist — of or relating to the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- casualise — make (a regular employee) into a casual worker
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- casualize — If a business casualizes its employees or casualizes their labour, it replaces employees with permanent contracts and full rights with employees with temporary contracts and few rights.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catabasis — a descent or downward movement
- cataclasm — a breaking down or disruption
- cataplasm — a poultice, often medicated
- cattleyas — Plural form of cattleya.
- caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
- caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
- cavatinas — Plural form of cavatina.
- ceasefire — A ceasefire is an arrangement in which countries or groups of people that are fighting each other agree to stop fighting.
- ceaseless — If something, often something unpleasant, is ceaseless, it continues for a long time without stopping or changing.
- cellulase — any enzyme that converts cellulose to the disaccharide cellobiose
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- charangas — Plural form of charanga.
- charismas — Plural form of charisma.
- chaseable — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired