English Wordbook/C
From The Anglish Moot
Staff C of the English Wordbook.
| English | Word Class | Anglish | ||
| Attested | Not attested | |||
| caballine | adj | - | horse-like horsely | |
| cabaret | n | nightclub | - | |
| cabbage | n | cole kale | - | |
| cabinet (rikecraft) | n | - | redebody | |
| cabinet (household) | n | - | mugboard wallboard | |
| cable | n | wire rope | ropewire | |
| caboose | n | - | trainback, shipkitchen | |
| cache | n | - | putstow bike | |
| cacophony | n | - | baleloud | |
| cadaver | n | - | dead body | |
| cadaverous | adj | deathly | ghastly, ghostly, grim, ashen, bloodless, bled-white | |
| cadet | n | - | forefighter | |
| cadmium | n | - | Wodan | |
| caecum | n | - | blindgut | |
| caesium | n | - | skyield | |
| cafe | n | coffee shop coffee house bar | - | |
| cafeteria | n | lunchroom dining hall | - | |
| cajole | vb | beg wheedle sweet-talk | - | |
| calamari | n | cuttlefish | - | |
| calcaneus | n | - | heelbone | |
| calcium | n | - | limeore | |
| calculate | vb | reckon | work out | |
| calculator | n | - | reckoner hand reckoner | |
| calculus | n | - | flowreckoning | |
| calendar | n | - | reckoning | |
| calendar | n | - | timetale | |
| calisthenics | n | - | drills | |
| calligraphy | n | - | handwriting craft of handwriting | |
| callous | adj | toughened tough stiff soulless hard hardened cold-hearted unkind careless cold heartless unbending stubborn unfriendly | unfeeling cold-shouldered hardhearted stony deadhearted stonehearted iron-witted | |
| calm | vb | soothe lithe simmer down lull | ||
| caluminate | vb | - | betell | |
| calque | n | - | edyielding (semi-calque) | |
| calyx | n | - | bloomleaf | |
| camera | n | - | lightfastener | |
| camouflage | n | - | derning, derncloth, dernclothing, dernstuff | |
| camomile | n | - | litheleaf | |
| campaign (military) | n | - | mightwork | |
| campaign (politics) | n | - | mootsmanmatch | |
| campaign | vb | take to the stump barnstorm | - | |
| campus | n | - | lorefield | |
| canal | n | waterway | - | |
| cancerous | adj | - | cankersome | |
| canine | adj | - | hound(like) dog(like) doggy | |
| cannon | n | - | dunspar (contraction of dun (thunder) and spear) | |
| canvas | n | - | hemprag | |
| capacity | n | - | holdth heldth | |
| capital | n | wherewithal | - | |
| capital (city) | n | - | head town landtown greatstead fromburg kingstead | |
| capital2 | adj | head | - | |
| capitalism | n | - | Smithishness wealthishness | |
| capricious | adj | fitful | choppy flighty fickle thought-hopping | |
| capsize | vb | - | wemmel keel | |
| captain | n | leader | headman (of a ship) shipper | |
| captivate | vb | enthrall bind fall for | - | |
| captive | n | - | heftling | |
| capture | vb | take kidnap steal swipe nab | - | |
| car | n | - | wain roadster horseless roadwain | |
| caravan | n | - | camperwagon | |
| carbon | n | soot | coalstuff lifestuff | |
| carbon dioxide | n | - | onecoal-twosour-stuff fizzloft | |
| carburator | n | - | forelofter | |
| cardiac arrest | n | - | heart standstill | |
| cardinal | n | (church) Wule (from Swedish Hwul) | ||
| career | n | - | line of work walk of life job path | |
| caress | vb | fondle stroke | - | |
| cargo | n | freight weight | - | |
| carnal | adj | - | fleshly | |
| carnivore | n | - | flesheater meateater | |
| carouse | vb | - | birle | |
| carousel | n | - | merry-go-round | |
| carpenter | n | - | woodwright woodcraftsman | |
| carpentry | n | - | woodwork woodcraft | |
| carriage (of body) | n | bearing | - | |
| carrot | n | - | sightroot gulroot hornroot | |
| carry | vb | bear weigh ferry | - | |
| cartouche | n | - | 2. stretched girder stretched foreverness-rope 4. brass-load load | |
| cartridge | n | holder 5. pickup 6. tape | 1. brass-load load | |
| case, in | conj | lest for fear that | - | |
| cashewnut | n | - | kidney nut | |
| casing (gunning) | n | shell brass | - | |
| casino | n | - | bet hall bet house | |
| castle | n | - | burg stronghold stronghouse | |
| castrate | vb | geld | - | |
| casual | adj | breezy | blithe, lght-hearted | |
| catch | vb | snare snarl snag latch fang nab | ||
| catechism | n | - | throughteaching | |
| catechumen | n | - | newswayling | |
| caterpillar | n | - | kaleworm leafworm Devil's cat hairy cat | |
| cathedral | n | - | headchurch | |
| catheter | n | - | (body)pipe | |
| cathode | n | - | downway | |
| catholic | adj | - | broad all oneworthen wholeabout popetrothen | |
| catkin | n | - | bloomtail | |
| cattle | n | cows livestock kine nowt fee | - | |
| cauldron | n | (large)kettle | - | |
| cauliflower | n | bloomcole | ||
| cause | vb | - | make begin start worth | |
| caustic | adj | burning | - | |
| cautery | n | [tissue]burning | - | |
| caution | n | wariness | - | |
| cautious | adj | wary canny careful | reckful | |
| cavalry | n | horsemen | riders | |
| cave | n | hollow hole cove | - | |
| cavil | vb | carp | - | |
| cavity | n | hollow hole | wame | |
| CD, audio | n | - | red book withfasted ring (WFR) | |
| CD-ROM | n | - | yellow book WFR-read only bemindings | |
| cease | vb | lay off | stop halt give up leave off yield aswike | |
| ceasefire | n | - | weapon-still | |
| celebrate | vb | - | bemark frels | |
| celebration | n | - | bemarking | |
| celery | n | - | fenroot fenwort | |
| celestial bow | n | rainbow | heaven's bow, thunderbow, showerbow, lightning-bow, watergall(imperfectly-formed) | |
| celestial sphere | n | welkin | - | |
| cell | n | - | hole room lifebrick | |
| cellulose | n | - | treesugar treestrand | |
| cement | n | - | brickstick | |
| cemetery | n | - | graveyard boneyard church-litten god's acre | |
| censorship (of words) | n | - | word-hunting hidedeeming of words | |
| censure | vb | upbraid | - | |
| cent | n | - | penny hundredth | |
| centipede | n | - | hundredfooter | |
| central | adj | - | middlemost midmost main | |
| centre | n | middle, innermost | crossmiddle, mid, midmost, nave, heart, yolk | |
| century | n | - | one hundred years hundredyear | |
| certain | adj | some known know | sicker | |
| certainly | adv | - | forsooth (i)wis soothly | |
| certificate | n | - | sickernote | |
| cerulean | adj | - | sky-blue heavenly-blue blue woadish | |
| chain | n | shackle fetter | - | |
| chain | vb | shackle fetter | - | |
| chair | n | seat stool settle | - | |
| chalk | n | limestone | - | |
| challenge | n | - | ordeal dare becall | |
| chamber | n | room bedroom | - | |
| chamber (of a gun) | n | breach | - | |
| chance | n | - | opening hap | |
| change | n | - | shift makeover wend | |
| change | vb | - | shift make over become turn into switch char | |
| change, exchange | v | - | wrixle (O.E. wrixlian) | |
| changeable | adj | - | wankle fickle | |
| channel | n | - | (shipping) fairway race ford | |
| channel | n | sound | - | |
| chaos | n | craziness topsy-turvydom unfrith | ||
| character | n | being | - | |
| charge | vb | load fill | - | |
| charged | adj | heated fraught burdened plighted | ||
| charity | n | - | alms selflessness giving | |
| Charlemagne | name | - | Karl the Great | |
| charming | adj | 'friendly lovely sweet | winsome comely | |
| charter | n | - | bestowing deed | |
| chase | vb | follow after[like vb "away"}] | - | |
| chastise | vb | chide scold | bring to book have words with | |
| chauffeur | n | driver | - | |
| cheat | vb | - | bilk hack swike | |
| cheat | n | - | swindle rig hack | |
| checker (game bit) | n | Draughtsman Draftsman | - | |
| cheer | n | - | gladness glee blithness | |
| cheer | vb | - | gladden root hearthen perk up | |
| cheerful | adj | - | beamish gladsome happy hearty gleeful merry mirthful | |
| cheese | n | - | kebbock | |
| chef d'oeuvre | n | masterwork masterpiece | - | |
| cherumen | n | earwax | - | |
| chief | n | head leader | - | |
| chili | n | - | hotpepper | |
| chime | vb | ring, toll | - | |
| China | n | Middle Kingdom | - | |
| chlorophyl | n | - | leafgreen | |
| choice | vb | - | wale | |
| choice, vote | n | - | wale | |
| cholesterol | n | - | gallvat | |
| Christian | adj | - | Christthrothen Christlike (calque of German Christlich) Christly | |
| Christian | n | - | Christliker man-fisher | |
| Christianity | n | - | Christendom (archaic also calque of German Christentum) Christthrothenness | |
| chromosome | n | - | lifebody lifepith | |
| chronicle | n | tale | - | |
| chronology | n | timeline | flow of time timeflow | |
| chrysantemum | n | - | goldbloom | |
| cider | n | - | applewine | |
| cigarette | n | - | smoke fag butt stompie | |
| cinder | n | - | slag sinder | |
| cinema | n | (the) movies | moviehouse filmhouse | |
| cinquefoil | n | - | fiffinger | |
| circa | prep | about | - | |
| circle | n & vb | ring | trindle trundle | |
| circulate | vb | broadcast | - | |
| circumcise | vb | - | cut about umcut | |
| circumcision | n | - | about-cutting umcutting | |
| circumference | n | rim circlerim | rimlength(71 Google hits) rimreach(W.B.) rimspan girth girthlength girthspan circlegirth umgang(?) | |
| circumflex | n | - | stavehat | |
| circumspect | adj | - | careful watchful | |
| circumstance | n | - | boutstanding | |
| circumvent | vb | - | work around overreach | |
| circumvention | n | - | workaround | |
| circus | n | big top | - | |
| cirrocumulus | n | - | curlcloud | |
| citizen | n | - | freeman inlander burger | |
| citroen | n | - | souraple | |
| city | n | - | (great) town borough burg chester (fr O.E ceaster- city) | |
| civet cat | n | - | slipcat | |
| civil law | n | - | folklaw | |
| civilian | n | - | rikemate | |
| civilisation | n | - | couthdom couthness,(act)couthening kempt living tame living folkhood settledhood (a particular society) folkdom | |
| civilise | vb | - | tame settle couthen | |
| civilized | adj | - | hold lord | |
| clairvoyant | n | - | clearseer | |
| claim | vb | ask for seek call for | hold get hold of want | |
| clamor | n | - | greeding | |
| clan | n | kinsfolk kindred | (gaming) fellowship | |
| clarify | vb | clear up, make clear | clearen | |
| class | n | layer kind | - | |
| classify | n | tag brand | - | |
| classical | adj | - | old and outstanding highest rank first stead | |
| classical languages | n | - | timeless tungs longread tungs | |
| claustrophobia | n | - | tightfear | |
| clear | adj | sharp | - | |
| clear | vb | - | redd | |
| clearing | n | glade, gall | - | |
| clergy | n | - | churchhood | |
| clergyman | n | - | churchman man of the cloth man of the church holy man man of God | |
| clerk | n | salesman | - | |
| cliché | n | - | thought saver | |
| clichéd | adj | hackneyed | - | |
| clinic | n | - | sickbay | |
| clock | n | - | daymale | |
| clockwise | adj | sunwise | - | |
| close | vb | shut narrow | - | |
| close | adj | near narrow nearby | - | |
| co- | pref | fellow | by- i- | |
| coalition | n | - | fellowblock | |
| coast | n | shore | strand shoreline warth searim | |
| coat of arms | n | - | kinshield | |
| cockroach | n | - | black-beetle | |
| co-eval | nn & adj | - | even-old | |
| cognate | n | - | kinword | |
| cognizant | adj | - | aware | |
| cohabit | vb | - | live together, by-live bide together dwell together, by-dwell | |
| coin | n | - | geldtoken mint minttoken | |
| coitus | n | - | rumpy-pumpy swiving | |
| cojones | n | balls guts | - | |
| colic | n | - | bellyharm | |
| collapse | n | downfall | infall | |
| collapse | vb | - | fall down fall in swoon | |
| collateral | n | friendly fire | scattershot | |
| colleague | vb | workmate | fellow worker | |
| collect | vb | gather | - | |
| colonize | vb | settle | take over move into spread through | |
| colony | n | - | settling rikeling | |
| colour | n | hue cast | light wavelength huecast | |
| colour | vb | hue dye shade | - | |
| column | n | upright | - | |
| comb | n | comb | - | |
| comb | v | comb | - | |
| combat | vb | fight | - | |
| combine | n | - | gatherbind withbind | |
| comestible | n | food | eatsome, a food thing | |
| comedian | n | - | laughtersmith | |
| comet | n | - | shooting star tailstar blazing star | |
| comfort | n | - | frofor | |
| comfortable | n | - | restful | |
| comic strip | n | funny | - | |
| command | n | behest | - | |
| command | n | headship | - | |
| command | vb | bid | - | |
| commandment | n | - | bodeword | |
| commence | vb | begin start | set out make to do | |
| commencement | n | beginning | outset frumth | |
| comment | n | - | umspeech | |
| commentary | n | input feedback | - | |
| commerce | n | business | - | |
| commercial | adj | - | businesswise | |
| commit | vb | - | betake | |
| commit suicide | vb | - | kill oneself betake selfmurder, selfslay | |
| common | adj | shared rife mean | meanshiply widespread everyday often so | |
| common ancestor | n | - | shared forebear | |
| common law | n & adj | - | English folkright English folklaw | |
| commonplace | adj | everyday, | often so | |
| communicate | vb | be understood give share teach put forward set forth hint make known bring word put forth speak out | - | |
| communism | n | - | Marxishness kithishness | |
| community | n | fellowship | borough-weren meanship | |
| compact | adj | - | withfasted withfixed | |
| compact disc | n | dishlet | withfasted ring | |
| companion | n | mate | helpmate | |
| companionable | adj | friendly | mately friend-strong | |
| company | n | business | - | |
| comparative anatomy | n | - | crosslikening bodylore | |
| compare | vb | - | liken crossliken gainmete | |
| comparison | n | - | likening crosslikening | |
| compassion | n | ruth rue | withfeeling | |
| compassionate | adj | ruthful | withfeeling | |
| compatible | adj | - | well-matched works with | |
| compatriot | n | kinsman | - | |
| compel | vb | - | gar | |
| compensation | n | - | meed | |
| competent | adj | - | good great up-to-it worthy | |
| complain | vb | whine moan gripe whinge carp | bellyache | |
| complaint | n | gripe | - | |
| complete | adj | whole all fulfilled done utter outright | thoroughgoing | |
| complete | vb | fulfill end | full-do full-end | |
| completely | adv | outright utterly wholly fully thoroughly to the full through and through, inside out, to the hilt | - | |
| complexion | n | hue look blee ilk kind suchness way | skin-look skin-hue outlook | |
| compliant | adj | toward | - | |
| complicate | vb | ravel | - | |
| composition | n | - | nibcraft make-up | |
| comprehend | vb | fathom grasp understand see through | - | |
| comprehensive | adj | thorough | - | |
| compromise | n | tradeoff | - | |
| compunction | n | - | qualm misgiving | |
| computation | n | - | reckoning | |
| compute | vb | - | reckon withreckon linkreckon | |
| computer | n | - | withreckoner linkreckoner reckoner manchester upthinker thoughtcrafter | |
| computer science | n | - | reckonercraft manchestercraft | |
| computer, electric | n | - | manchester thundermighty manchester sparkwork reckoner sparkwork thoughtcraft | |
| conceal | vb | - | hide shroud | |
| conceal oneself | vb | hide lie low | - | |
| concealment | n | - | hidlock hidenhood | |
| conceivable | adj | - | thoughtworthy | |
| conceive | vb | (of wights): knit | foreseed | |
| concentric | adj | - | middlesharing | |
| conception (mental) | n | - | hent | |
| concern | n | worry reck | - | |
| concerning | pre | about toward | - | |
| conclude | vb | end | - | |
| conclusion | n | - | end(say) finding | |
| concurrently | prep | - | meanwhile all along | |
| condemn | vb | - | fordeem | |
| condescend | vb | belittle stoop | talk down lower oneself | |
| condition | n | - | fettle | |
| condom | n | rubber scumbag [slang, foul] | - | |
| conduct | vb | - | lead undertake | |
| conductress | n | - | clippy | |
| confectionary | n | - | sweets sweet-shop | |
| confederacy | n | - | Looseband | |
| confederate | n | henchman | - | |
| confer | v | bestow, lend | ||
| conference | n | - | meeting klatch | |
| confess | v | - | andette (M.E. andetten) | |
| confess | vb | - | own up shrive | |
| confession | n | - | shrift | |
| configuration | n | setting | - | |
| confine | vb | - | lock in keep trap fetter grasp latch (by illness) abed bedrid | |
| confiscate | vb | - | filch | |
| conflagration | n | fire | - | |
| confluence | n | - | watersmeet | |
| confound | vb | befuddle, bewilder, addle | - | |
| confront | vb | take on, come at, be up against | ||
| confuse | vb | ravel bewilder | ablend yblend muddle addle | |
| confused | adj | - | ablent yblent | |
| congress | n | - | lawmaker body | |
| conjugate | vb | - | bend | |
| conjunction | n | - | linking word linkword bindword yokeword | |
| connect | vb | link fit | link fit, tie-in | |
| connection | n | link bond | link bond | |
| conquer | vb | overcome | overwin | |
| conquest | n | - | greatwin | |
| conscience | n | - | inwit, heart's eye | |
| conscious | adj | aware | - | |
| conscript | vb | draft call-up | - | |
| consecrate | vb | hallow | - | |
| consent | n | - | leave | |
| consequence | n | - | upshot aftermath fall out blowback (unintended) in the wake(idiom) | |
| consequently | adv | thereby hence | - | |
| consider | vb | heed, bethink | think about umbethink reckon set down | |
| consists (of) | vb | - | is made up of | |
| console | vb | - | soothe soothe by word and deed allay sorrow share grief give strength and hope | |
| consonant | n | - | withloud | |
| conspicuous | adj | - | kenspeckle | |
| conspire | vb | plot | - | |
| constant | adj | ongoing besetting | onwherft | |
| constipated | adj | belly-bound | ||
| constitution | n | - | makeup (lawish) writlaw | |
| construct | vb | build | - | |
| constructed language (conlang) | n | - | madeup speech | |
| constructed language maker (conlanger) | n | - | speechmaker | |
| construction | n | building | - | |
| under construction | vb phrase | abuilding | - | |
| consumerism | n | - | intakerness | |
| consummate | adj | - | thoroughgoing swive | |
| consumption | n | - | intaking | |
| contact | vb | meet with, reach | - | |
| contain | vb | hold | have in itself inhold | |
| contaminate | vb | - | befoul | |
| contemporary | adj | - | today's fellow-timed like-timed | |
| contemporary | n | - | time-fellow | |
| contemptuous | adj | sneering | - | |
| contend | n | set to | - | |
| contend, argue | v | - | flite | |
| content | n | - | inhold (calque from German "Inhalt") | |
| content | adj | fulfilled canty happy glad | - | |
| contention | n | - | wrangling | |
| contest | n | match | - | |
| context | n | - | light, framework, ins and outs | |
| contiguous | adj | - | abutting | |
| continent | n | - | greatland mainland landstretch fastland | |
| continue | vb | go on abide keep on | ongo | |
| continuous | adj | unbroken ongoing | - | |
| contort | vb | - | writhe | |
| contract | n | - | handfast | |
| contradict | vb | - | gainsay | |
| contrary | adv | against | withershins | - |
| contribute | vb | put in, weigh in | - | |
| contribution | n | - | offering | |
| contrition | n | ruth | - | |
| control | n | hold might | clout | |
| control | v | hold wield, head, lead, | have upper hand, have in hand, lord over | |
| conundrum | n | riddle | - | |
| conurbation | n | - | towncluster | |
| convergence | n | overlap | gathering togethering | |
| conversation | n | talk mailing | talking | |
| converse | vb | speak talk | corrieneuch | |
| conversely | adv phr | - | on the other hand otherwise | |
| convert | vb | sway make over | win over bring to turn to | |
| convey | vb | bear send | - | |
| convict | n | - | lag overstell | |
| co-operate | vb | - | work together | |
| co-operation | n | - | working together teamwork | |
| cop | vb | - | nab | |
| cop | n | - | hound | |
| cope | vb | - | deal | |
| copious | adj | - | beteeming | |
| copse | n | thicket shaw | - | |
| copy | vb | - | eftyield, bring forth again | |
| cord | n | string wire rope | tew | |
| cord (in fabric) | n | - | rib ridge rib-cloth ribbed cloth | |
| cord | vb | fasten | stack lengthwise | |
| cordage | n | rope(s) rigging | - | |
| cordial | adj | friendly hearty warm | - | |
| cording | n | rope(s) rigging | ribbed side (of ribbed cloth) | |
| cords | n | trousers | ribbed trousers | |
| corduroy | n | - | rib-cloth ribbed cloth | |
| corduroy | adj | - | ribbed, of lengthwise logs | |
| corduroy | vb | - | set (logs) lengthwise | |
| corduroys | n | trousers | ribbed trousers | |
| core | n | heart yolk | - | |
| cormorant | n | - | sea raven, coal-goose | |
| cornea | n | - | hornweb | |
| corner | n | - | nook winkle | |
| coronation | n | - | crowning | |
| corpor(e)al | adj | - | bodily bodysome | |
| corporation | n | - | businessbody | |
| corpse | n | body dead body | lich | |
| corpulence | n | overweight | - | |
| corpus | n | - | body | |
| correct | adv adj | right | - | |
| correct | vb | - | put one right | |
| correction fluid | n | - | white out | |
| correctly | adv | rightly arightly | ||
| corridor | n | hallway | - | |
| corroborate | vb | - | bear out | |
| corrugated | adj | - | wrizzled | |
| corrupt | v | crooked bent | adrille (M.E. adrille) | |
| corslet | n | - | byrnie | |
| cost | n | outlay worth | ||
| costly | adj | dear | ||
| costume | n | outfit get-up | - | |
| cottage | n | - | sheel cote | |
| cotton | n | - | treewool wortwool | |
| council | n | - | folkmoot | |
| counsel | vb | - | rede | |
| counsellor | n | - | alderman redeman redegiver | |
| count | vb | - | reckon tell arime | |
| count | n | - | reckoning | |
| count | n | earl | - | |
| countenance | n | - | leer | |
| counterbalance | n | - | offset | |
| counter-clockwise | adj | withershins widdershins | - | |
| counterpart | n | - | match | |
| counterstroke | n | - | gainclap | |
| country (geography) | n | land weald | upland (rural) | |
| country (political) | n | kith | - | |
| country | n | fatherland homeland motherland |
(in a personal & emotional sense)erd | |
| county | n | - | shire earldom wapentake erd reeveship | |
| county council | n | - | shiremoot | |
| coup | vb | strike | - | |
| coup de grace | n | - | masterstroke pitystroke | |
| coupling, train\carriage(etc) | n | - | thill | |
| coupon | n | - | deemslip | |
| courage | n | mettle boldness | fearlessness | |
| courageous | adj | bold daring doughty fearless | unfrightened full-hearted | |
| course | n | - | runway run flow faring setting outcome learnset (academic) | |
| court | n | - | deemhall lawhouse hof lawdom kinghall | |
| courteous | adj | - | fairspoken | |
| courtyard | n | - | hallyard | |
| cousin | n | - | nearkin | |
| covenant | n | troth | bond, binding, binding deal, trustbond, | |
| cover | n | holster sheath | ||
| cover | vb | overlay hide deck | overspread | |
| covering | n | skin, feathers, hackles | - | |
| cover with | vb | lay on | - | |
| covert | adj | hidden shrouded stealthy | under wraps | |
| cover-up | n | - | whitewash | |
| covet | vb | crave want | hunger after thirst after cast greedy eyes on | |
| covetous | adj | greedy | graspy grabby hoggish wanting | |
| coward | n | dastard | arg flytail | |
| cowardly | adj | dastardly | overfrightened backboneless thewless | |
| co-worker | n | fellow worker | - | |
| cranium | n | skull | - | |
| cravat | n | necktie | - | |
| crayon | n | - | waxchalk | |
| cream | n | salve ream | -milk's head | |
| crease | n & vb | wrinkle rumple rimple runkle | - | |
| create | vb | make build craft shape | ashape | |
| creation | n | making building crafting | shaping frumschaft | |
| creator | n | Life's Weaver | ||
| creature | n | wight | ||
| credence | n | - | belief trustworthiness | |
| credibility | n | - | beliefworthiness | |
| credible | adj | - | beliefworthy | |
| credit | n | acknowledgement | - | |
| creed | n | belief | - | |
| cremate | v | bale | - | |
| creme de la creme | n | - | bee's knees dog's bollocks best of the best | |
| crepuscular | adj | - | twilight | |
| crepuscule | n | - | twilight darkful dusk nightfall gloaming evenfall eventide duskingtide sundown downset darkfall | |
| crest | n | ridge, links | ris comb | |
| cretin | n | mouth-breather | - | |
| crime | n | - | misdeed wrongdoing folly | |
| criminal | n | outlaw warg | lawbreaker warrow wrongdoer scofflaw | |
| crimson | n | - | deepred bloodred | |
| criterion | n | - | deemmean | |
| critical | adj | weighty key scathing | - | |
| criticise | vb | chide undersay carp scathe blast knock [slang] rap [slang] scold slam [slang] upbraid niggle | - | |
| criticism | n | - | undersaying potshot flak | |
| crocodile | n | - | pebblewyrm | |
| croissant | n | - | moonbread | |
| cross | n | - | rood | |
| crown | n | - | (king)wreath | |
| crucifix | n | - | rood | |
| crucify | vb | - | hang upon a rood roodfasten | |
| crude | adj | rough raw | - | |
| cruel | adj | harsh ruthless | - | |
| cry | vb |
weep | - | |
| crystal | n | - | hardice | |
| cub | n | - | whelp | |
| cuckoo | n | - | gowk cuckoo | |
| cucumber | n | - | earthapple | |
| cull | vb | 1. choose, pick, pick out, pitch on, pitch upon 2. sift, winnow 3. gather, pluck, pick up | - | |
| cull | n | 4. pickings, siftings | - | |
| cul de sac | n | dead end | ||
| culminate | vb phr | - | come together, reach it's highest, come to a head | |
| cultivate | vb | grow till farm tame | - | |
| culture | n | - | kithship way of life | |
| culvert | n | ditch | - | |
| cup | n | stoup /stuːp/ stoop mug | bedwig | |
| cure | vb | heal rid of illness | - | |
| curious | vb | - | eager to know knoweager yearn to know | |
| curlew | n | whaup | - | |
| current | adj | today's | now's nowa | |
| current(river) | n | tow, undertow | ||
| currently | adv | as of yet now | - | |
| curriculum | n | - | learnplot | |
| curriculum vitae | n | - | walk of life smithsyore | |
| cursive | adj | handwritten | flow-staved | |
| cursor | n | runner | - | |
| curtail | vb | foreshorten | - | |
| curtain | n | - | forehanger hangcloth | |
| curve | n | bow bend | - | |
| custom | adj | - | thew bespoke folkway | |
| custom | n | business trade | ||
| cut | n | hew, carve, reap, shape, hack, mow, scythe | - | |
| cutaneous | adj | skin hide- | hideish hidely | |
| cutaneous disease | n | tetter scurf scurvy | - | |
| cutlass | n | - | (sailor's, short) backsword | |
| cutlery | n | |||
| cyclist | n | wheeler | ||
| cygnet | n | - | swanling | |
| cynosure | n | - | blazing star | |
