| caption | a title, a chapter heading/ a text under illustration |
| capricious | unpredictable, fickle |
| caprice | a sudden, unexpected fancy, a whim |
| to capitulate | to surrender |
| capacity | mental or physical ability ex. to accommodate/ a role |
| capacious | spacious |
| to canvass | to determine votes |
| canto | a dicision of a long poem |
| canter | a slow gallop |
| cantata | a story set to music |
| cantankerous | ill-humoured, irritable |
| cant | insincere expressions of pity/ jargon of theirves |
| canny | shrewd, thrifty |
| canine | related to dogs, dog-like |
| candour | frankness, open honesty |
| cameo | a jewel carved in a relief |
| camaraderie | good fellowship |
| calumny | malicious misrepresentation/ a slander |
| calorific | heat-producing |
| callow | youthful, immature, inexperienced |
| calligraphy | beutiful writing |
| callous | hardened, unfeeling |
| calibre | ability, quality |
| caldron | a large kettle |
| calculated | deliberately planned, likely |
| calamity | a disaster, misery, catastrophe |
| to cajole | to coax, to wheedle |
| to cadence | to beat |
| cadence | a rhytmic rise and fall |