Words that start with C

Cider is a drink made from fermented apples. Cider can be alcoholic or not. Cider can range from a pale yellow, clear drink right through to a darker yellow-brown cloudy drink, depending on how it was filtered. The majority of ciders have bubbles added to them, to make them sparkling cider.

A cigarette is a roll of paper, filled with finely chopped tobacco and other additives. People who use cigarettes are called smokers. Modern cigarettes usually have a filter at one end. The unfiltered end is set on fire and the other end is put in the mouth, and smokers inhale the smoke through the cigarette.

Cinder blocks are fairly lightweight concrete blocks used for building walls. They are usually hollow. Their name varies depending on what is used as an aggregate. Cinder blocks can be called concrete blocks, cement blocks, foundation blocks, breeze blocks (UK), besser blocks (Australia) or clinker blocks. The lighter, lower quality types of cinder blocks use industrial wastes like ash as an aggregate.

Cinnamon is made from the bark of a small tree native to Sri Lanka. The smell and taste comes from an oil that the plant makes. Cinnamon is usually sold as a powder in shops, and is simply the bark of the tree ground into powder. Cinnamon is used in a lot of cooking, mostly in sweet desserts like chocolate dishes, apple pie and many cakes and cookies. Cinnamon is used with sugar on cinnamon donuts.

A circlet is a circle-shaped ornament, usually worn on your head. Circlets are mostly associated with wedding attire and fantasy characters.