C C is the fourth letter of the Serbian alphabet, Bosnian alphabet, Croatian alphabet, Czech alphabet, Slovak alphabet and Slovenian alphabet and the fifth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet and Latvian alphabet alphabet.
	C C is the fifth letter of the Bosnian alphabet, Croatian alphabet and Polish alphabet alphabets, with the same position in the Serbian alphabet, Montenegrin language and Macedonian alphabet versions of Latinic.
	C The letter C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is cee. C comes from the same letter as G or g. The Semites named it Gimel, their word for a throwing stick. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyphs for a boomerang.
	C major C major is a musical major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C. Its key signature contains no flats or sharps. Its relative key is A minor, and its parallel key is C minor. C major is one of the most commonly used key signatures in music.
	C-clamp The C-clamp or G-cramp is a type of Clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece. These clamps are called "C" clamps because of the C shaped frame and are often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding.
	C-Note Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin, played by Rockmond Dunbar, is a fictional character from Fox Broadcasting Company television series Prison Break. He was promoted from recurring character to regular character midway through the first season.
	C-reactive protein C-reactive protein is a plasma protein, an acute phase protein produced by the liver. It is a member of the pentraxin family of proteins. It should not be confused with C-peptide or Protein C.
	C. S. Forester Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an England novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleon, and The African Queen .
	C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish_people author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics and fiction. He is best known today for his childrens series The Chronicles of Narnia.
	C. W. Post C. W. Post more fully Charles William Post, was an United States breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. The son of Charles Rollin Post and Caroline Cushman Lathrop, Post visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium operated by John Harvey Kellogg for his failing health.
	Cabaret Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables watching the performance. The turn of the 20th century introduced a revolutionized cabaret culture.
	Cabbage The cabbage is a plant of the Family Brassicaceae . It is herbaceous, biennial plant, and a dicot flowering plant with leaves forming a characteristic compact cluster. The cabbage is derived from a leafy Mustard plant plant, found in the Mediterranean region around 100 AD.
	Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the world's Noble grapes varieties. The principal grape in many Bordeaux Wine wines, it is grown in most of the world's wine regions, although it requires a long growing season to ripen properly and gives low yields.
	Cabin cruiser A cabin cruiser is a type of boat that allows extra storage or camping space. Cabin cruisers are generally larger than other boats, and allow temporary living space. These are generally more expensive.
	Cable railway Cable railways are steeply graded railways that use a cable or rope to haul trains. The gradient of these lines is typically so steep that a conventional adhesion train could not climb the track. Most commonly the cable is operated by a stationary engine, although other methods such a gravity or water balance are also used.
	Cable television Cable television or Community Antenna Television is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to peoples televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required.
	Caboose A caboose or brake van or guard's van is a manned railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train in North America, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.
	Cabriolet Original meaning A cabriolet was a light, two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a folding 'Barouche' top, seating two persons facing forwards, one of whom was the driver. The design was developed in France in the early 19th century, the vehicle quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London.
	Cacao Cacao is a small evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae , native to tropical Mexico, but now cultivated throughout the tropics. Its seeds are used to make cocoa and chocolate. The bush grows naturally in tropical regions such as in the low foothills of the Andes at elevations of around 200400 m in the Amazon River and Orinoco river basins.
	Cache In computer science, a cache is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch or compute relative to reading the cache. Once the data is stored in the cache, future use can be made by accessing the cached copy rather than refetching or recomputing the original data, so that the average access time is lower.
	Cachet In general terms cachet refers to "prestige", or a societal stamp of approval. In philately, a cachet is a design or inscription, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage, on an envelope, postcard, or postal card to commemorate a postal or philatelic event. There are official and private cachets; they commemorate everything from the first flight on a particular route, to the Super Bowl.
	Cacodemon A cacodemon is an evil spiritual being or demon. The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit or angel. Cacodemon comes from the Greek language kakodaimon, meaning "bad spirit" or "bad demon". In psychology, cacodemonia is a form of insanity in which the patient believes that they are possessed by an evil spirit.
	Cacodyl Cacodyl, dicacodyl, tetramethyldiarsine, alkarsine or Cadet's liquid2AsAs(CH3)2 is a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor. Cacodyl undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air. Jns Jakob Berzelius coined the name kakodyl for the dimethylarsinyl radical,2As, from the Greek kakodes and hyle.
	Cactus Cactus is the name given to any member of the flowering plant family Cactaceae. The cacti have adapted to extreme arid environments and show a wide range of Anatomy and Physiology features which conserve water. Cacti are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also crop plants.
	Cactus Wren The Cactus Wren is the largest North American wren, and is 18-23 cm long. Unlike the smaller wrens, the Cactus Wren is easily seen. It has the loud voice characteristic of wrens, but its song is harsh and unmusical, and it is much less shy than most of the family. Its marked white eyestripe, brown head, barred wings and tail, and spotted tail feathers make it easy to identify.
	Cadastre A cadastre is a register of the real estate of a country, with details of the area, the owners and the value. The word came into English language by way of French language and Italian language, variously attributed to the Late Latin capitastrum, a register of the poll tax, and the Greek language katastikhon, a list or register, from kata stikhon, literally, "down the line" in the sense of "line by line."
	Cadaverine Cadaverine is a foul-smelling molecule produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH25NH2, which is similar to putrescine. Cadaverine is also known by the names 1,5-pentanediamine and pentamethylenediamine.
	Caddo The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Southeastern tribes Native Americans in the United States who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma.
	Caddoan languages The Caddoan languages are a language family of Native American languages. They are spoken across the Great Plains of the central United States, from North Dakota to Oklahoma.
	Cadency In heraldry, cadency is any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family. Cadency is necessary in heraldic systems in which a given design may be owned by only one person at once. Because heraldic designs may be inherited, the arms of members of a family will usually be similar to the arms used by its oldest surviving member.
	Cádiz Cdiz – Phoenician languages: ??? - Gadir; Greek language: Gadeira - , Ionic Greek: , Herodotus, and, rarely, , Eratosth. ap. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v.; Latin: Gades – is a City and Naval Station in southwestern Spain and part of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia.
	Cadmium Cadmium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. A relatively rare, soft, bluish-white, toxic transition metal, cadmium occurs with zinc ores and is used largely in batteries.
	Cadmium sulfide Cadmium sulfide, the mineral greenockite, is an hexagonal, yellowish crystal with specific gravity of 4.7 and Mohs hardness of 3.8. Synthetic cadmium pigments based on cadmium sulfide are valued for their good thermal stability in many polymers, for example in engineering plastics.
	Caduceus A caduceus is a winged staff with two snakes wrapped around it. It was an ancient astrological symbol of commerce and is associated with the Greek mythology god Hermes, the messenger for the gods, conductor of the dead and protector of merchants and thieves. It was originally a herald's staff, sometimes with wings, with two white ribbons attached.
	Caecilian The Caecilians are an order of amphibians that resemble earthworms or snakes. They mostly live hidden in the ground which makes them the least explored order of amphibians, and widely unknown.
	Caeciliidae Caeciliidae is the Family of common caecilians. They are found in central and south America, equatorial Africa and India. Caecilians are amphibians that superficially resemble worms or snakes.
	Caesalpinia Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size, consisting of tropical and subtropical woody plants. It is named after the botanist Andrea Cesalpino. The name Caesalpinioideae at family level, or Caesalpinioideae at the level of subfamily, is based on this generic name.
	Caesalpinia decapetala Caesalpinia decapetala commonly known as the Mauritius or Mysore thorn or the cat's claw is a tropical tree species originating in India. It is as a robust, thorny, evergreen shrub 2-4 m high or climber up to 10 m or higher; often forming dense thickets; the stems are covered with minute golden-hair; the stem thorns are straight to hooked, numerous, and not in regular rows or confined to nodes.
	Caesalpinia pulcherrima In the genus Caesalpinia the most popularly planted species is Caesalpinia pulcherrima. Its common English name is Poinciana. It is a shrub growing to 3 m tall, native to tropical United States. The leaf are bipinnate, 20-40 cm long, bearing 3-10 pairs of pinnae, each with 6-10 pairs of leaflets 15-25 mm long and 10-15 mm broad.
	Caesalpinioideae Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia. The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics. Their flowers are zygomorphic, but are very variable.
	Caesar salad Caesar salad is a traditional salad often prepared tableside. It is sometimes termed the "king" of salads.
	Caesarean section A caesarean section , or c-section, is a form of childbirth in which a surgery incision is made through a mother's abdomen and uterus to deliver one or more infant. It is usually performed when a vaginal delivery would lead to medical complications, although it is increasingly common for otherwise normal births as well.
	Caesium Caesium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 C which makes it one of the metals that are liquid at or near room temperature along with rubidium , francium , mercury , and gallium .
	Cafeteria A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is no table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a canteen or dining hall. Instead of table service, there are food-serving counters/stalls, either in a line or allowing arbitrary walking paths.
	Caffeine Caffeine is a xanthine alkaloid compound that acts as a stimulant in humans. Caffeine is sometimes called guaranine when found in guarana, mateine when found in mate , and theine when found in tea. It is found in the Leaf and coffee beans of the coffee plant, in tea, yerba mate, and guarana berries, and in small quantities in cocoa, the kola nut and the Yaupon Holly.
	Cahoot cahoot is an internet commercial bank in the United Kingdom, launched by Abbey, which is now part of Grupo Santander of Spain. The bank was launched in 2000 as the internet bank of Abbey, and as at the end of 2004 had some 650,000 customers. cahoot is based in Coventry, England.
	Cahoots Cahoots was the fourth LP by Canadian-United States rock group The Band, and their last all-original studio album for four years. It received only mixed reviews when it first appeared, and remains generally regarded as one of the weaker albums in the group's catalog. Robbie Robertson wrote or cowrote all but one of the album tracks: Dylan's When I Paint My Masterpiece.
	Cairina Cairina is a genus of ducks in the bird family Anatidae. It has two species: * Muscovy Duck, Cairina moschata * White-winged Wood Duck, Cairina scutulata
	Cairn A cairn is a non-naturally occurring pile of stones erected by a person or persons. They are usually found in Upland and lowland , on moorland, or on mountaintops.
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	Cairngorms The Cairngorms are a mountainous region in the Eastern Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, consisting of a large elevated plateau adorned with low, rounded glacial mountains. This area became Scotland's second national park on 1st September 2003. The mountains are in the Subdivisions of Scotland of Aberdeenshire, Moray, Angus, Perth and Kinross and Highland.
	Cairo Cairo translated the "land of Ra'" It comes from two Coptic words "Kahi" meaning "land" and "Raa". It is the capital city of Egypt . It has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world .
	Cajun The Cajuns are an ethnic group consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and other peoples with whom the Acadians eventually intermarried on the semitropical frontier, including Louisianians of Spanish, German, and French Creole heritage. Today the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.
	Cake A cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often Baking. Cakes normally combine some kind of wheat product, a sweetener , a binding agent , fats , a liquid , flavouring and some form of leavening agent . Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays.
	Cakewalk Cakewalk is a traditional African American form of music and dance which originated among slavery in the US South. A cake, or slices of cake, were offered as prizes for the best dancers — a rare treat during slavery — giving the dance its name. The dance was invented as a satirical parody of the formal European dances preferred by white slaveowners, and featured exaggerated imitations of the dance ritual, combined with traditional African dance steps.
	Cakile (incomplete list) Cakile arabica gulf coast searocket American sea rocket gulf searocket coastal searocket European searocket Cakile is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae.
	Calabar bean The Calabar bean is the seed of a leguminous plant, Physostigma venenosum, a native of tropical Africa. It derives its scientific name from a curious beak-like appendage at the end of the carpel, in the centre of the flower; this appendage, though solid, was supposed to be hollow.
	Calabash The calabash is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh.
	Calabria Calabria , is a region in southern Italy which occupies the "toe" of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. It is bounded in the north by the region of Basilicata, region of Sicily in SW, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea. The region covers 15,080 square kilometre and has a population of 2.05 million.
	Caladenia The genus Caladenia belongs to the subfamily Orchidoideae of the orchid family. The abbreviation Calda. is often used in trade journals to indicate the genus. The subtribe Caladeniinae is considered polyphyletic, due to the alliance of Lyperanthus with the genera of Drakaeinae and Thelymitrinae.
	Caladium Caladium is a genus of plants of the family Araceae. They are often known by the common name elephant ear, which they share with the closely related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma. The genus Caladium includes seven species, which are indigenous to Brazil and to neighboring areas of South America and Central America.
	Calais Calais is a town in northern France, located at 5057N 152E. It is in the dpartement in France of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-prfecture. The population of the city at the 1999 census was 77,333 inhabitants. The population of the whole metropolitan area at the 1999 census was 125,584.
	Calamagrostis Calamagrostis, or Small-reed or Reedgrass, is a genus in the Grass family Poaceae with about 230 species that occur mainly in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are commonly Introduced species. These tufted perennials usually have hairless narrow leaf.
	Calamintha Calamintha is a genus of plants that belongs to the family Lamiaceae. There are about thirty species in the genus which is native to the northern temperate regions of Europe and Asia. Species include: *Calamintha officinalis, a low-growing plant with a minty smell and lavender flowers.
	Calamintha grandiflora Large-flowered calamint is is a species of ornamental plant. References * Alfred Pink External links*
	Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane, was a frontierswoman and professional scout most well known for her exaggerated claim of being a close friend with Wild Bill Hickok, after having first gained fame fighting Native Americans in the United States.
	Calandrinia The plant genus Calandrinia contains many species of purslane, including the redmaids. The genus was named for Jean Louis Calandrini, an 18th century Switzerland botany. It includes around 150 species of annual herbs which bear colorful flowers in shades of red to purple and white.
	Calanthe Calanthe is a widespread genus of terrestrial orchids with about 150 species. The genus is found in all Tropics areas, but mostly concentrated in Asia. Calanthe discolor is widely grown by the name Ebine in Japan. The genus is divided into 2 groups: deciduous species and evergreen ones.
	Calceolaria Calceolaria is a genus of plants in the Calceolariaceae family, sometimes classified in Scrophulariaceae by some authors. This genus consists of about 388 species of shrubs, lianas and herbs, and the geographic range extends from Patagonia to central Mexico, with its distribution centre in Andes region.
	Calcite The Carbonate minerals calcite is a calcium carbonate corresponding to the formula CaCO3 and is one of the most widely distributed minerals on the Earth's surface. It is a common constituent of sedimentary rocks, limestone in particular. It is also the primary mineral in Metamorphic rock marble.