Words beginning with the letter C.
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Call/phone | ring up/phone |
Call collect | Reverse charges |
Can | Tin |
Candy | Sweets/Chocolate |
Candy store | Sweet shop/confectioner |
Caravan | Convoy |
Carnival | Fair (funfair) |
Change purse | Purse |
Charged (good bought) | Put down/entered |
Check (restaurant) | Bill |
Checkers | Draughts |
Check room | Cloakroom |
Cheese cloth | Butter muslin |
Chicory | Endive |
Chips (potato) | Crisps |
City/municipal government | Corporation |
Closet | Cupboard |
Closet (hanging clothes) | Wardrobe |
Clothes pin | Clothes peg |
Collar button | Collar stud |
Comforter | Eiderdown |
Concert master | Leader |
Conductor | Guard (railway) |
Connect (telephone) | Put through |
Cookie | Biscuit (sweet) |
Corn starch | Corn flour |
Cotton batting/absorbent cotton | Cotton wool |
Cotton candy | Candy floss |
Cracker | Biscuit (unsweetened) |
Crazy bone | Funny bone |
Cream of wheat | Semolina |
Cuffs (pants) | Turn-ups (trousers) |
Custom made | Bespoke/made to measure |