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Curaçao
proper noun
obsolete spelling of Curazao
Curepto
proper noun
Curepto (a commune and city in Curepto, Chile); a department of Chile
Curicó
proper noun
Curicó (a city in Chile); Curicó (a province of Chile); Curicó (a region of Chile); a department of Chile; a province of Chile until 1976.
Curitiba
proper noun
Curitiba (a municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil)
Curlandia
proper noun
Courland (a region in western Latvia)
Curro
proper noun
a diminutive of the male given name Francisco
Cuscatancingo
proper noun
Cuscatancingo (a town in San Salvador department, El Salvador)
Cuscatlán
proper noun
a department of El Salvador
Cusco
proper noun
alternative spelling of Cuzco; places in Peru:
Custodio
proper noun
a male given name; a surname
Cutervo
proper noun
a province of Cajamarca, Peru; a city, the provincial capital of Cajamarca, Peru
Cuyancúa
proper noun
a legendary creature, believed to have the body of a snake and the head of a pig.
Cuyo
proper noun
Cuyo (a former province of Argentina).; Cuyo (a geographic region of Argentina).
Cuyultitán
proper noun
a town in La Paz department, El Salvador
Cuzco
proper noun
Cuzco
Cuéllar
proper noun
a surname
Cuéllar
proper noun
Cuéllar (a town and municipality of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain)
CyL
proper noun
initialism of Castilla y León (“Castile and León”) (an autonomous community of Spain)
Cybertruck
noun, masculine/feminine
Cybertruck
Cygnus
proper noun
Cygnus (constellation)
Czartoryski
proper noun
a surname from Polish
Cáceres
proper noun
Cáceres (a province of Extremadura, Spain; capital: Cáceres); Cáceres (a city in Extremadura, Spain); a surname; the letter c in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Cádiz
proper noun
Cadiz (a port city and municipality, the provincial capital of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain); Cadiz (a province of Andalusia, Spain)
Cáhuil
proper noun
Cáhuil (a village in the O'Higgins region, Chile)
Cáller
proper noun
Cagliari (a province of Sardinia, Italy); Cagliari (a port city and comune, the capital of the province of Cagliari and of Sardinia as a whole)
the House of Commons
the House of Lords
Cámpora
proper noun
a surname
Cáncer
proper noun
Cancer (constellation); Cancer (zodiac sign)
Cándida
proper noun
a female given name, masculine equivalent Cándido
Cándido
proper noun
a male given name, feminine equivalent Cándida
Cápiz
proper noun
Capiz (a province of the Philippines, on northern Panay island; capital and largest city: Roxas); Capiz (a historical province of the Philippines; modern Capiz or Aklan; capital: Capiz); Capiz (a historical municipality of Capiz, Philippines; modern Roxas)
Cárcar
proper noun
Cárcar (a town and municipality of Navarre, Spain); Carcar (a city in Cebu, Philippines)
Cárdenas
proper noun
a surname; a city in Matanzas, Cuba; a town in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; a city in Tabasco, Mexico, west of Villahermosa
Cárpatos
proper noun
Carpathians (mountainous system in Central Europe)
Cáucaso
proper noun
Caucasus
Céfiro
proper noun
Zephyrus
Célebes
proper noun
Celebes, Sulawesi (an island of Greater Sunda, Indonesia)
César
proper noun
Caesar; a male given name from Latin
Cícladas
proper noun
Cyclades (an archipelago of Greece)
Cólquide
proper noun
Colchis (a historical region and ancient Georgian kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus on the border between Europe and Asia, corresponding to what is now western Georgia (including Abkhazia), as well as parts of Russia and Turkey)
Cómbita
proper noun
a town in Boyacá department, Colombia
Córcega
proper noun
Corsica (an island and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)
Córdoba
proper noun
Córdoba (the capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain); Córdoba (a province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city); Córdoba (the capital of the province of Córdoba, in central Argentina); Córdoba (a province in central Argentina); Córdoba (a department of Colombia)
Córdova
proper noun
a surname from placenames
Cúcuta
proper noun
Cúcuta (a city in Colombia)
Dome of the Rock (shrine in Jerusalem)
D
noun
abbreviation of dama (“queen”): Q
D.
noun
abbreviation of Don
D.F.
proper noun
initialism of Distrito Federal (“Federal District”)
D.ª
noun
abbreviation of Doña
DAMER
proper noun
initialism of Diccionario de Americanismos
DANA
noun, feminine
acronym of depresión aislada en niveles altos (“high-level isolated depression”), cold drop
DCM
phrase
abbreviation of de cada mes (of each month)
DCV
proper noun
initialism of Democracia Cristiana Vasca
DD. HH.
noun, masculine
initialism of derechos humanos (“human rights”)
DDL
noun, masculine
initialism of dulce de leche
DDT
noun, masculine
DDT (chemical compound)
DEA
noun, masculine
acronym of Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (a tertiary education degree higher than a master's, but lower than a doctorate)
DEA
proper noun
Administración de Control de Drogas; DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).