cabbage
café
[coffee][house]
cake
calendar
California
state symbols: [bear][republic] + [gold]
calf
calf, shin
astrology: [Aquarius]+[lower body]
call
calcine
astrology: [Cancer]+[chemical process]
can
Canada
national symbols: [maple leaf]
candle
capacitor from electrical diagrams.
capital
capital city
[maps: capital][city]
captain
[military insignia: two bars][battle]
capitol
car
card
careful
[see][danger]
carpet
carrot
carry
case, instance
cashier
[charge][person]
castle
cat
catch
compare with [drop]
cathedral
[chess: bishop][church]
cattle
[hieroglyphics: cattle]
[runes: cattle]
cauliflower
cause
cave from orienteering.
celebrate
cellar
[under][ground][room]
center
century
certainly
chain
chair
change
charge
compare with "pay" and "spend"
cheap
compare with "expensive"
check
cheek
cheese
chemistry
cherry
chest
Chicago
chicken
child (offspring)
child (young person)
chin
China
[middle][land]
Chinese (language)
Chinese (person)
chocolate
Chongqing
chong="again"
qing="celebrate"
choose
Christ
Christian
Christianity
[Father][Son][Holy Ghost]
Christmas
compare with "yule"
church
cigarette
cinema
city
clean
clear
client
cliff from orienteering.
clock
close
clothes
cloud
club
coat
coffee
coffin
coin
cold
collar
colonel
[military insignia: eagle][battle]
color
column
comb
come
comet
come back
comedy
Communism
company
compare
comprehend
Latin: com- + prehendere: [together][grasp]
computer
comrade
conclude
Latin: con- + claudere: [together][close]
concord
Latin: con- + cor: [together][heart]
concur
Latin: con- + currere: [together][run]
condition
Latin: condicio, terms of agreement, fr. con- + dicere: [together][say]
condolence
Latin: con- + dolere: [together][grief]
confuse
congeal
astrology: [Taurus]+[chemical process]
connection
conquer
consider
Latin con- + sidus, sider-: to observe the stars
considerable
continent
Latin continere: [together][hold]
continue
cook
copper
astrology: [Venus]+[metal]
copy
cord
core
corn
corner
corporal
cost
cotton
count
country
[maps: border]+[land]
couple
courage
courthouse
court
cousin
cow
[milk][cattle]
crane
cream
[rich][milk]
create
Latin creare, crescere: [grow]
crime
crop
crown
cry, weep
cucumber
culture
cup
cupboard
curse
from cartoons
curtain
customs
cut
cyclone from weather


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