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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

Letter
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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Part of speech
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110 words · showing 1–60

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  • call backphraseB1To phone someone again who called you first.
  • call it a dayphraseB2To stop working for the day, or to end something for good.
  • call offphraseB2To decide a planned event will not happen.
  • call outphraseB12 meaningsTo shout in order to be heard.
  • calm downphraseA2To become or make someone become less angry or agitated.
  • can't complainphraseB2A cheerful way of saying life is going well enough.
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cancel outphraseB2
To have an opposite effect that leaves nothing gained.
  • car park/ˈkɑːpɑːk/phraseA2The area or building where drivers leave their cars.
  • carry on/ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/phraseB12 meaningsTo continue doing something.
  • carry out/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/phraseB2To actually do a plan, order, or experiment.
  • carry out researchphraseB2To do systematic study of a subject.
  • carry overphraseC1To keep something for a later period instead of losing it.
  • carry straight onphraseB1To keep going without turning off.
  • cast off/kæst ɒf/phraseC1To finish knitting by securing the last row.
  • cast onphraseC1To make the first row of loops on a knitting needle.
  • catch a glimpsephraseB2To see something for only a moment.
  • catch firephraseB12 meaningsTo start burning.
  • catch on/kæt͡ʃ ˈɒn/phraseB22 meaningsTo come to understand something.
  • catch sight ofphraseB2To see something briefly and unexpectedly.
  • catch somebody's driftphraseC1To grasp the general point somebody is making.
  • catch somebody's eyephraseB2To attract somebody's notice.
  • catch upphraseB12 meaningsTo reach someone who is ahead of you.
  • catch you laterphraseB1A very casual way of saying goodbye.
  • caught red-handedphraseC1Discovered in the very act of doing wrong.
  • centre aroundphraseB2To have as its main subject.
  • chalk and cheesephraseC1Two things that could not be more unalike.
  • chalk upphraseC1To record a win or a total to somebody's credit.
  • chance upon/ˈt͡ʃɑːns əˌpɒn/phraseC1To meet or find by pure accident.
  • change aroundphraseB1To move things into different places.
  • change intophraseB1To put on other clothes, or to become something else.
  • change out ofphraseB1To take off what you are wearing and dress differently.
  • change the sheetsphraseB1To take off the used bedding and put clean on.
  • change your tunephraseC1To suddenly say the opposite of what you said before.
  • check inphraseB1To report your arrival at a hotel desk or an airport counter.
  • check outphraseB12 meaningsTo leave a hotel after paying.
  • cheer upphraseB1To become — or make someone — happier.
  • chicken outphraseC1To lose your courage at the last moment and not do it.
  • child's play/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/phraseB2So simple that anyone could manage it.
  • chime inphraseC1To add your voice to a conversation already going.
  • chip inphraseB2To contribute money or a remark.
  • clap your handsphraseA2To strike the palms together in praise.
  • clean as a whistlephraseC1Perfectly clean, or completely free of blame.
  • clean slatephraseC1A fresh start with all past mistakes wiped away.
  • clear the airphraseB2To talk openly and remove bad feeling.
  • clear up/klɪəˈɹʌp/phraseB12 meaningsTo tidy a place or put things away.
  • click and collect/klɪk ənd kəˈlɛkt/phraseB2Ordering online and picking the goods up in person.
  • click your fingersphraseB2To snap the fingers to make a sharp sound.
  • clock inphraseB2To register your arrival at work.
  • clock upphraseC1To reach a total of miles, hours or wins.
  • close up/kləʊzˈʌp/phraseB1To shut for the day, or to heal over.
  • club togetherphraseC1To share the cost of something between several people.
  • cold feetphraseB2Sudden fear just before a big step, like a wedding.
  • come aboutphraseB2To happen — used when asking how something started.
  • come acrossphraseB22 meaningsTo find something by chance.
  • come around tophraseC1To end up agreeing with a view you first rejected.
  • come backphraseA22 meaningsTo return to a place.
  • come betweenphraseB2To damage the bond between two people.
  • come byphraseB22 meaningsTo obtain or acquire something.
  • come cleanphraseB2To admit the truth at last.
  • come down withphraseB2To start suffering from an illness.