Words that start with C

Cute cats crawl carelessly past carefully cultivated canola.

Cis forCrisps

Potato crisps, or just chips, are thin slices of potato deep fried until they are crispy. They are sprinkled with salt and other flavours, and sold in foil packets. The most popular flavour besides plain is salt and vinegar.

Cis forCroak

Croak is the noise a frog or toad makes. Sometimes people say "ribbit" instead of croak. Frogs make noise by passing air through a vocal sac, but by puffing out the skin on their throats they can make their croak so loud that some types of frog can be heard up to a mile away.

Cis forCrochet

Crochet is a way of making cloth out of loops of yarn using a small hook. Crochet is different to knitting as there is only ever one loop at a time, while knitting has many loops along the knitting needle.
Scientific name: family: crocodylidae
Crocodiles are a large reptile that can range in size up to eight metres long. They are found all over the world, and can live in both fresh water and salt water. They are related to alligators.

Cis forCrocus

Scientific name: crocus sativus
Crocuses are small flowers that grow from a bulb under the ground. They come in a huge range of colours. Most crocuses only grow to a few inches tall. They usually grow one flower each year before they grow their leaves.
A croissant is a French pastry made from layers of yeast-risen puff pastry and butter. It is made into the shape of a crescent moon.

Cis forCrop

A crop is a large amount of produce, like wheat or corn or any kind of plant grown for food. It is called a crop as you harvest it, as in a crop of apples.

Cis forCroquet

Croquet is a lawn game, which involves hitting a ball through hoops stuck into the grass with a mallet. There are many different variations on the rules for croquet, with the simplest being that the person who knocks the ball through all the hoops with the fewest number of hits wins.

Cis forCross

A cross is a shape made by crossing two straight lines. Crosses are often built out of two pieces of wood nailed together. The Christian cross usually seen on top of churches has the horizontal part of the cross much shorter than the vertical part.
Cross stitch is a kind of embroidery made up of lots of evenly spaced stitched crosses.