Words that start with C

Cis forCarpenter

A carpenter is someone who works with wood. Carpenters might build houses, or furniture, or carve beautiful things out of wood. The tools you are most likely to see a carpenter using are a hammer and saw.

Jobs

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Cis forCarpet

A carpet is a soft, usually fluffy surface that is put down on floors. Carpet usually means something that covers the entire floor, but can sometimes mean a smaller rug. Sometimes people call carpet broadloom carpet or wall-to-wall carpet. Carpets make the floor feel soft and warm.

Furniture

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Cis forCarriage

A carriage is a vehicle or a large wheeled container to carry people or things. In old times, it was pulled by horses. Today, people may use the word for a part of a train. In modern times, horse drawn carriages are mostly used for occasional purposes, like tourism or weddings, not for daily travel.

Vehicles

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Cis forCarrot

Scientific name: daucus carota

The carrot is a bright orange edible root. Carrots are crunchy when you eat them raw. Carrots can be eaten on their own raw or cooked or used in soups, stews, cakes, puddings and in all manner of ways. They are a very common, widely-used vegetable.

Vegetables, Plants

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Cis forCarry

You carry something when you lift it off the ground and move it to somewhere else. The woman in the picture is carrying a cat.

Verbs

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Cis forCart

A cart is a simple vehicle with wheels that is pulled by horses or other beasts of burden such as oxen. Carts are very similar to wagons.

Vehicles

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Cis forCartoon

A cartoon is a drawing or animation that is usually meant to be funny or entertaining.

Art & crafts

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Cis forCartwheel

A cartwheel is a gymnastic move where you go over sideways onto your hands and keep turning around like the wheel of a cart. Cartwheels are great fun to do on the beach or on a lawn.

List of action and motion words

Vera & Jean-Christophe / CC BY-SA

Cis forCarve

You carve something by taking a large piece of it and slowly removing small pieces until you have the shape you want. The most common things that are used to carve other shapes from are wood and stone. The man in the picture is carving a design into a piece of wood.

Verbs

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Cis forCascade

Cascade means to fall over a steep surface or over an edge. Water is especially prone to cascading off of cliffs and forming waterfalls.