Words that start with C

Cute cats crawl carelessly past carefully cultivated canola.

Cis forChital

The chital, or spotted deer, is a deer with a light brown coat covered in white spots. It lives in forests and open grasslands across parts of India and nearby areas.

Cis forChives

Scientific name: allium schoenoprasum
Chives are a member of the onion family. Chives grow in clumps from a bulb under the ground. You can use the leaves cut up on salads or on potato or pasta dishes. You can use the flowers in salads too. Chives are very easy to grow from seed, and they can also grow new chives by digging up a clump and splitting off the smaller side bulbs. There are different varieties of chives, one of the most useful being garlic chives, which have leaves and flowers with a strong garlic flavour.

Cis forChock

A chock is a piece of wood or metal used to hold something steady. Chocks are most often used against wheels to stop a vehicle from rolling away.
Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted seeds of the tropical cacao tree. The seeds are used to make cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Chocolate is used to make a huge variety of sweets, desserts, cakes and drinks. Modern chocolate usually comes in dark, milk and white chocolate. All three of them have sugar added. Milk chocolate has milk added to it, and white chocolate doesn't have cocoa solids in it, only cocoa butter.

Cis forChoir

A choir is another word for a chorus.

Cis forChoose

You choose something when you pick it from several different options. For example, if you are asked to choose a cake from the selection in the picture, you might choose the chocolate one.

Cis forChop

You chop something up by cutting it into pieces with something sharp like a knife or axe.
A chopping board is a portable surface, usually made from wood or plastic, that is used when you are cutting up food so that your kitchen table or benches don't get damaged.
Chopsticks are used in many Asian cultures instead of a fork. They are just two sticks that you hold in one hand and use a slight scissor action to pick up food between the ends of the chopsticks. If you have never used chopsticks before it can take some practise to be able to properly pick up your food. Most food that is designed to be eaten with chopsticks is cut into small pieces before it is cooked, so you don't need a knife while you are eating.

Cis forChord

A chord is three or more musical notes played at the same time. The man in the picture is playing a chord on his guitar.