| café |
an informal restaurant, coffee shop, or barroom that usually specializes in simple meals, coffees, and desserts. |
| cafeteria |
a dining hall or restaurant in which customers select or are served their food at a counter and carry it on trays to their tables. |
| caffeine |
a bitter substance that occurs naturally in coffee, tea, chocolate, and certain other substances and has stimulant and diuretic effects. |
| cage |
a boxlike enclosure having some sections covered by wire or bars and used to confine and often to display animals or birds. [4 definitions] |
| caiman |
any of several tropical American reptiles similar to crocodiles or alligators. |
| Cairo |
the capital of Egypt. |
| Cajun |
a person of French Acadian descent, now usu. native to Louisiana. [2 definitions] |
| cake |
a sweet, baked food made with flour, sugar, and eggs, often in the form of a loaf or round layers. [4 definitions] |
| Cal.1 |
abbreviation of "large calorie," or "large calories," a unit of energy used for measuring energy value of food oxidized in the body, or the amount of food capable of producing such a unit. |
| Cal.2 |
an abbreviation of "California," a U.S. state on the west coast. |
| calamity |
an event causing extreme harm, suffering, or destruction; disaster. [2 definitions] |
| calcium |
a chemical element of the alkaline-earth group that has twenty protons in each nucleus and occurs widely in nature, but only in compounds such as calcite or limestone. (symbol: Ca) [2 definitions] |
| calculate |
to compute mathematically. [6 definitions] |
| calculation |
the act, process, or result of calculating or making computations. [4 definitions] |
| calculator |
a machine used in calculating or computing numbers. [2 definitions] |
| Calcutta |
a state capital on the eastern coast of India. |
| calendar |
a chart of the days, weeks, and months of one or more years. [4 definitions] |
| calf1 |
the young of cattle or of other bovine mammals, and of some other large mammals such as seals or whales. [2 definitions] |
| calf2 |
the muscular back part of a human's leg below the knee. |
| calico |
a simply woven cotton cloth with a bright printed pattern. [3 definitions] |
| California |
a U.S. state on the Pacific coast. (abbr.: CA) |