Words that start with C

The capybara is the world's largest living rodent, with a stocky body, short brown fur, and webbed feet that help it move through water. It lives in South America, especially near rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Capybaras are good swimmers and often spend time in the water to stay cool and safe. They graze on grasses and plants and usually live in small groups.

A car park, also known as a parking lot, is a flat area made of asphalt where you put your car while you're not driving it.

Caramel is a word for a mid-brown colour as well as a food. Caramel is made by heating sugar until it melts and changes colour. Caramel has a disctinctive flavour and is used in a lot of desserts like puddings and cakes, and is also used in lots of sweets and candies.

Carbon is an element, and it is not a metal. Carbon can be found in many forms, the most well-known are: a clear, crystalline form called diamond, the black graphite found in lead pencils and common carbon that is found as coal and soot.

A greeting card is a piece of thick paper with a pretty picture on the front and a message inside.
You give cards to people on special occasions, like their birthday, their wedding, or to someone you love on Valentine's day.

Cardboard is very thick paper. Cardboard might be solid all the way through, or it might have a zigzag of thinner cardboard inside it, for strength but keeping it light.

Cargo, also called freight, is goods that are being transported. Cargo is usually being moved so it can be sold. When people talk about cargo they usually mean very large quantities of goods, like the shipping containers full of goods on the ship in the picture.

Carnations are a popular cut flower, with greyish green leaves and flowers that come in shades of pink, white and red, and in solid colours as well as patterned. The edges of most carnation petals are distinctively frilly.

A carnival is a special celebration with games, music, dancing, and fun. People often dress in colorful costumes and enjoy parades.

Carnivals can happen in many countries, usually in cities. They may include rides, food stalls, and performances.

The carob is a small tree from the Mediterranean area. It will grow in a wide variety of soils and climates as long as it is not waterlogged. The young trees are frost sensitive but mature trees are frost tolerant, and the tree is drought tolerant and will even grow in slightly salty soils. Carobs grow big seed pods that start green like in the picture and gradually turn dark, wrinkly brown over a year and then fall off. Carobs are related to peas.
Carob seedpods are sweet and can be dried, roasted and ground and used to make a chocolate substitute.