Word origins

• Concepción de AtacoA town in San Salvador department, El Salvador.
• Concepción de OrienteA town in La Unión department, El Salvador.
• Concepción QuetzaltepequeA town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
• conceptismoA 16th- and 17th-century literary movement in Spain associated with Francisco de Quevedo and characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, wordplay, and witty metaphors.
• ConchaguaA town in La Unión department, El Salvador.
• Conejos CountyOne of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Conejos.
• ConstituciónA neighbourhood in central Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• continuismThe practice of serving in office indefinitely by bypassing or abolishing term limits.
• contrabandistaA contrabandist in Spain, Portugal, or Latin America.
• Contra Costa CountyOne of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Martinez.
• contradanzaA popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.
• contrapuntocounterpoint
• contrayervaDorstenia contrajerva, a South American plant whose aromatic root is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
• conversoA Jew or Muslim in Spain or Portugal who converted to Roman Catholicism under duress, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries.
• conyoperson who belongs to a wealthy or well off predominantly English-speaking family
• cool arrowAn asshole (especially in the context of a jocular phonetic reception by an American of a Hispanic saying the Spanish word culero, meaning "asshole").
• cooncanA card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
• CopadoA surname from Spanish.
• CopanaguastlaA village in Chiapas, Mexico.
• copinSynonym of medio, particularly in Asturias, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L
• copinoSynonym of medio, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L
• CopinulaA river in El Salvador.
• copitaA sherry glass with a tapering bowl.
• coquillaThe nut of the Brazilian palm Attalea funifera.
• coquitoA traditional Puerto Rican alcoholic eggnog made with coconut.
• CoralesA surname from Spanish.
• corazoninA neuropeptide present in many insects
• cordelSpanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
• córdobaThe currency of Nicaragua, divided into 100 centavos.
• CordobesA person from Córdoba; a Cordovan.
• Cordovan hatA wide-brimmed traditional hat made in the city of Córdoba, Spain and traditionally worn in a large part of Andalusia.
• cordwainA kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
• corozoAny of several Central American palms.
• corralitoThe economic measures taken in Argentina at the end of 2001 by Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo in order to stop a bank run.
• correctamundocorrect
• corregimientoA historical administrative subdivision of a country in certain parts of Spain and Latin America
• corrido tumbadoA subgenre of regional Mexican music derived from traditional corridos featuring trap's lyrical flow and subject matter.
• CortorrealA surname from Spanish.
• coruroA species of rodent, Spalacopus cyanus, found in Chile.
• cosahuiA shrub of the Sonoran Desert, Calliandra eriophylla, having pink or white powder-puff flowers, also known as fairy duster.
• Costa del SolA geographic area along the coast of Andalusia, stretching roughly from Maro to Punta Chullera, serving as a popular summer tourist destination.
• CostanoanA member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
• Costa RicaA country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Costa Rica.
• costeeA quadroon.
• CoxcatlánA community in Puebla, Mexico.
• coyotilloA low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico, with poisonous berries.
• coypuA large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling a large rat, having bright orange-yellow incisors, native to South America and introduced to Europe, Asia and North America, valued for its fur in eastern Europe and central Asia and considered a pest elsewhere.
• CozoyoapanA town in Guerrero, Mexico.
• criaderaA tier of sherry barrels in a solera
• CristalesA surname from Spanish.
• croquetaA Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
• crusadoA crusader.
• CuadrasA surname from Spanish.
• cuadrillaThe team which supports the matador.
• cuajoa kind of card game, similar to Khanhoo
• cuartaA traditional Galician unit of dry measure, a quarter-ferrado equivalent to about 3–4.5 L depending on the substance measured.
• CuartasA surname from Spanish.
• cuarteronA traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 115 g.
• cuartillaA traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 13.9 L.
• cuartilloA traditional Castilian unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1.2 L.
• cuatrilloAn obsolete letter (Ꜭ, ꜭ) shaped like a 4 with a hook, used in colonial Mayan orthographies to indicate a velar ejective.
• CuauhtémocThe last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan.
• CubatónA variation of reggaeton from Cuba.
• cuchifritoA dish of Puerto Rican origin, made of fried pork.
• cuchufliA Spanish tubular dessert flavoured with vanilla
• cucujoAny of a number of species of bioluminescent beetle in the Pyrophorus genus
• cuestasA surname from Spanish.
• CuisnahuatA town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.
• culantroThe tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine. (See Usage notes below for this sense.)
• culpeoA canid of species (Lycalopex culpaeus), native to the Andes region of South America.
• culteranismoA literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.
• cultismThe system or practice of a cult.
• Cumbre ViejaA volcano in La Palma, Canary Islands in the Atlantic, part of Macaronesia, of the Africa, belonging to Spain.
• CumpianA surname from Spanish.
• CupeñoThe American Indian people of Southern California who formerly lived at what is now Warner Springs, California.
• curaçaoA liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.
• curanderaA specifically female curandero, or traditional Central American healer.
• curanderismoTraditional Central American folk medicine, as practised by curanderos.
• curanderoA traditional Central American healer.
• curiaraa dugout canoe used by indigenous people in South America
• CuscatlánA department of El Salvador.
• CuyamungueA census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.
• CuyultitánA town in La Paz department, El Salvador.
• damianitaChrysactinia mexicana
• DariénA province of Panama.
• datil yuccaA yucca with edible fruit variously compared to dates or bananas, and native to the deserts of the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Yucca baccata
• Davao del NorteA province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tagum.
• Davao del SurA province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Digos. Largest city: Davao City.
• Davao de OroA province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Nabunturan, the province was formerly known as: Compostela Valley
• Davao OccidentalA province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Malita.
• Davao OrientalA province of the Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Mati.
• DeandaA surname.
• DeArcosA surname from Spanish.
• DeasisA surname from Spanish.
• De BacaA surname from Spanish.
• DecasasA surname from Spanish.
• DeganteA surname from Spanish.
• DeGuiaA surname from Spanish.
• DelafuenteA surname from Spanish.
• DelahozA surname from Spanish.