English Wordbook/C

From The Anglish Moot

Staff C of the English Wordbook.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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
cacophony	n	-	baleloud
cadaver	n	-	dead body
cadet	n	-	forefighter
cadmium	n	-	Wodan
caecum	n	-	blindgut
caesium	n	-	skyield
café	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
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
calyx	n	-	bloomleaf
camera	n	-	lightfastener
camomile	n	-	litheleaf
campaign (military)	n	-	mightwork
campaign (politics)	n	-	mootsmanmatch
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 greatstead fromburg kingstead
capital2	adj	head	-
capitalism	n	-	Smithishness wealthishness
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
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 lug	-
cartouche	n	-	2. stretched girder stretched foreverness-rope 4. brass-load
cartridge	n	holder 5. pickup 6. tape	1. brass-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 happy	blithe
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	-
cavity	n	hollow hole	wame
CD, audio	n	-	red book withfasted ring (WFR)
CD-ROM	n	-	yellow book WFR-read only bemindings
cease	vb	-	stop halt give up leave off yield aswike
ceasefire	n	-	weapon-still
celebrate	vb	-	bemark frels
celebration	n	-	bemarking
celery	n	-	fenroot fenwort
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
cent	n	-	penny hundredth
centipede	n	-	hundredfooter
central	adj	-	middlemost midmost main
centre	n	middle	crossmiddle, mid, midmost, nave, heart
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	throat
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
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
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	vb	-	redd
clearing	n	glade	-
clergy	n	-	churchhood
clergyman	n	-	churchman man of the cloth man of the church holy man man of God
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	-	by- i-
co-eval	nn & adj	-	even-old
co-worker	n	fellow worker	-
coalition	n	-	fellowblock
coast	n	shore	strand shoreline warth searim
coat of arms	n	-	kinshield
cockroach	n	-	black-beetle
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 s. courage	-
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	-
combat	vb	fight	-
combine	n	-	gatherbind withbind
comestible	n	-	eatsome
comet	n	-	shooting star tailstar blazing star
comfort	n	-	frofor
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, selfslaughter
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
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	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
complexion	n	hue look blee ilk kind suchness way	skin-look skin-hue outlook
complicate	vb	ravel	-
composition	n	-	nibcraft make-up
comprehend	vb	fathom grasp understand	-
comprehensive	adj	thorough	-
compromise	n	tradeoff	-
compunction	n	-	qualm misgiving
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
concealment	n	-	hidlock hidenhood
conceivable	adj	-	thoughtworthy
conceive	vb	(of wights): knit	foreseed
concentric	adj	-	middlesharing
concern	n	worry	-
concerning	pre	about	-
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
conduct	vb	-	lead undertake
conductress	n	-	clippy
confectionary	n	-	sweets sweet-shop
confederacy	n	-	Looseband
confederate	n	henchman	-
conference	n	-	meeting klatch
confess	v	-	andette (M.E. andetten)
confess	vb	-	own up shrive
confession	n	-	shrift
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	-
confuse	vb	ravel bewilder	ablend yblend muddle addle
confused	adj	-	ablent yblent
congress	n	-	lawmaker body
conjunction	n	-	linking word linkword bindword yokeword
connect	vb	link fit	link fit
connection	n	link bond	link bond
conquer	vb	overcome	overwin
conquest	n	-	greatwin
conscience	n	-	inwit
conscious	adj	aware	-
conscript	vb	draft call-up	-
consecrate	vb	hallow	-
consent	n	-	leave
consequence	n	-	upshot aftermath fall out blowback (unintended)
consequently	adv	thereby	-
consider	vb	heed	think about umbethink
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
constant	adj	besetting	onwherft
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	-	illth (wasteful) 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
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
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	mailing	talking
converse	vb	-	corrieneuch
conversely	adv phr	-	on the other hand otherwise
convert	vb	sway	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	-
cord	n	string wire rope	tew
cordial	adj	friendly hearty warm	-
core	n	heart yolk	-
cormorant	n	-	sea raven
cornea	n	-	hornweb
corner	n	-	nook winkle
coronation	n	-	crowning
corpor(e)al	adj	-	bodily bodysome
corporation	n	-	businessbody
corpse	n	body	lich
corpulence	n	overweight	-
corpus	n	-	body
correct	adv adj	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	earl	-
counterbalance	n	-	offset
counter-clockwise	adj	withershins widdershins	-
counterpart	n	-	match
counterstroke	n	-	gainclap
country (geography)	n	land	-
country (political)	n	kith	-
country	n	fatherland homeland motherland	(in a personal & emotional sense)erd folkland
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
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
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	-	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 scathing	-
criticise	vb	chide undersay	-
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 shout wail yell howl sob	-
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	-
culture	n	-	kithship way of life
culvert	n	ditch	-
cup	n	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
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	-
cutaneous	adj	skin hide-	hideish hidely
cutaneous disease	n	tetter scurf scurvy	-
cutlery	n	flatware(nb. American), silverware	-
cygnet	n	-	swanling
cynosure	n	-	blazing star