Words beginning with the letter C.
USA  |
UK  |
|---|---|
| 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 |