Words Starting C & Ending NY

• an institution created to conduct business

• small military unit; usually two or three platoons

• the state of being with someone

• organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

• a social or business visitor

• a social gathering of guests or companions

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship

• a unit of firefighters including their equipment

• be a companion to somebody

• Divided into a line of squares of alternating tinctures

• a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

• an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

• A minced oath that expresses surprise or impatience.

• resembling cotton; as soft as cotton

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

• a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• a long narrow depression in a surface

• a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)

• dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality