• cacography


• cacology


• caconym


• cacophemism


• cacozelia


• Caesar, Julius


• caesura


• calque


• CamelCase


• canonical order


• cant


• capital | Capitol


• capitalization


• capitonym


• caret (^)


• caritive case


• Carny


• case


• casus generalis


• catachresis


• cataphora


• causative suffix


• causative verb


• Caxton, William


• cedilla


• censure | censor


• cerilla


• character


• charactonym


• charientismus


• Charisius, Flavius Sosipater


• chiasmus


• child-directed speech


• Chomsky, Noam


• chrestomathy


• chroneme


• Ciardi, John


• circumfix


• circumflex (ˆ)


• circumlocution (linguistics)


• circumlocution (rhetoric)


• circumstantial adverb


• circumstantial modality


• citation


• citation form


• cite | site


• Classical Hebrew


• Classical Latin


• clause


• cledonism


• cleft infinitive


• cleft sentence


• cliché


• climactic | climatic


• clipping


• clitic


• close pair


• CNL


• cognate accusative


• cognate object


• cognates


• cognate verb


• coin


• Coleridge, Herbert


• collective noun


• collocation


• collocational restriction


• colon (:)


• colon (rhetoric)


• combining form


• comitative case


• comma (,)


• comma splice


• commercial at (@)


• common adjective


• common gender


• common name


• common noun


• comparative


• compare to | compare with


• competence mistake


• complacent | complaisant


• complement


• complement | compliment


• complex-compound sentence


• complex preposition


• complex sentence


• compound


• compound adjective


• compound adverb


• compound-complex sentence


• compound modifier


• compound noun


• compound sentence


• compound split infinitive


• compound subject


• compound tense


• compound verb


• comprise | compose


• concord


• concrete noun


• conditional


• conditional conjunction


• conditional mood


• conditional perfect


• confusables


• confusage


• congeries


• conjugate


• conjugation


• conjunct


• conjunction


• conjunctive adverb


• conjunctive conjunction


• conlang


• connotation


• connotation | denotation


• consonance


• consonant


• consonantal alphabet


• consonantal drift


• consonantary


• consonant cluster


• contextual spell-checking


• continuous | continual


• continuous aspect


• contraction


• contranym


• contrived acronym


• controlled language


• conventional haplography


• conversion


• conversion (etymology)


• coordinate adjectives


• coordinate clause


• coordinating conjunction


• coordinating connective


• coordination


• coordinator


• coprolalia


• copula


• copulative conjunction


• correlative


• correlative conjunction


• correlative coordination


• council | counsel


• councillor | counsellor


• countable noun


• counterterm


• covering word


• crasis


• credible | credulous


• creole


• crescendo | climax


• cruciverbalist


• cryptolect


• Crystal, David


• cumulative adjectives


• cumulative genitive


• cuneiform