Words that start with C
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- Capacity Maths
- How much a container can hold, such as 2 litres of water.
- Capital letter English
- A big letter like A or B, used at the start of a sentence and for names.
- Caption English
- The short words under a picture that explain it.
- Carbon dioxide Science
- A gas that animals breathe out and plants use to make food.
- Carnivore Science
- An animal that eats only other animals, like a lion.
- Cell Science
- The tiny building block that all living things are made of.
- Centimetre Maths
- A small unit of length. There are 100 centimetres in 1 metre.
- Character English
- A person or animal in a story.
- Chlorophyll Science
- The green substance in leaves that catches sunlight so the plant can make food.
- Chord Maths
- A straight line that joins two points on a circle. The longest chord is the diameter.
- Circle Maths
- A perfectly round shape where every point on the edge is the same distance from the centre.
- Circuit Science
- A complete path that electric current can flow around.
- Circumference Maths
- The distance all the way around a circle, like its perimeter.
- Citation English
- A note that tells where you found a fact or a quote, such as the name of the book or website.
- Clause English
- A group of words with a subject and a verb. It can be a whole sentence or part of one.
- Climate Science
- The usual weather of a place over many years.
- Cloud storage Computers
- Keeping your files on computers on the internet, so you can open them from many devices.
- Code Computers
- The instructions written for a computer in a programming language.
- Coding Computers
- Writing instructions for a computer to follow.
- Colon English
- The mark : that comes before a list or an explanation.
- Comma English
- The mark , that gives a short pause in a sentence or separates items in a list.
- Command Computers
- An instruction you give to a computer.
- Compound word English
- A word made by joining two words, like "football" or "sunflower".
- Computer Computers
- A machine that follows instructions to take in information, work with it and show results.
- Condensation Science
- When a gas such as water vapour cools and turns into liquid drops.
- Conditional Computers
- A coding idea that says "if this is true, do that", like if it is raining, take an umbrella.
- Conductor Science
- A material that lets heat or electricity pass through it easily, like copper.
- Cone Maths
- A solid shape with a round flat base and one point at the top, like an ice-cream cone.
- Conjunction English
- A joining word such as "and", "but" or "because".
- Consonant English
- A letter that is not a vowel, like b, c, d or t.
- Consumer Science
- A living thing that cannot make its own food and eats plants or animals.
- Contraction English
- A shorter word made by joining two words and leaving out some letters, like "can't" for "cannot".
- Coordinates Maths
- A pair of numbers that tells you where a point is on a grid, like (3, 2).
- Copy and paste Computers
- Copying something and putting a duplicate of it somewhere else.
- CPU Computers
- The central processing unit, the part of the computer that does the thinking and calculating.
- Cube Maths
- A solid shape with six square faces that are all the same size, like a dice.
- Cube number Maths
- The answer when you multiply a number by itself three times. For example, 2 x 2 x 2 = 8, so 8 is a cube number.
- Cube root Maths
- The number that makes a cube number when multiplied by itself three times. The cube root of 27 is 3.
- Cuboid Maths
- A solid shape with six rectangle faces, like a brick or a matchbox.
- Current Science
- The flow of electric charge round a circuit.
- Cursor Computers
- The small mark on the screen that shows where you are typing or pointing.
- Cyberbullying Computers
- Being unkind to someone online or on a phone. If it happens, tell a trusted adult.
- Cylinder Maths
- A solid shape with two flat round ends and a curved side, like a tin of beans.