- chattel: Any article of personal property.
- check: To hold back.
- chiffon: A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
- chivalry: The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
- cholera: An acute epidemic disease.
- choleric: Easily provoked to anger.
- choral: Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
- Christ: A title of Jesus
- christen: To name in baptism.
- Christendom: That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
- chromatic: Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
- chronology: The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
- chronometer: A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
- cipher: To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
- circulate: To disseminate.
- circumference: The boundary-line of a circle.
- circumlocution: Indirect or roundabout expression.
- circumnavigate: To sail quite around.
- circumscribe: To confine within bounds.
- circumspect: Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
- citadel: Any strong fortress.
- cite: To refer to specifically.
- claimant: One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
- clairvoyance: Intuitive sagacity or perception.
- clamorous: Urgent in complaint or demand.
- clan: A tribe.
- clandestine: Surreptitious.
- clangor: Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
- clarify: To render intelligible.
- clarion: A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
- classify: To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblanceÕs and differences.
- clearance: A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
- clemency: Mercy.
- clement: Compassionate.
- close-hauled: Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
- clothier: One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
- clumsy: Awkward of movement.
- coagulant: Producing coagulation.
- coagulate: To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
- coalescence: The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
- coalition: Combination in a body or mass.
- coddle: To treat as a baby or an invalid.
- codicil: A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
- coerce: To force.
- coercion: Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
- coercive: Serving or tending to force.
- cogent: Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
- cognate: Akin.
- cognizant: Taking notice.
- cohere: To stick together.