Spelling list: Words starting with ce

Before the letter e the sound /s/ can be spelled with the letter c.

cease	The troop of soldiers were told to cease fire immediately.
ceiling	We've painted the ceiling white.
celery	He doesn't like celery in a salad.
central	The bank was fairly central in the city.
celebrity	He followed celebrity news.
cement	We use a trowel to put the cement on the bricks. *
cemetery	We visited the cemetery once a month.
century	A decade lasts for ten years while a century lasts for one hundred. *
centipede	The centipede crawled on the leaf.
census	The government often takes a census of the population.
cereal	Wheat is an example of a cereal grain.
ceremony	Will you be attending the opening ceremony?
certain	Are you certain you paid that bill?
certificate	The college awarded me a certificate.
centre	There were lots of people in the city centre on Saturday. *
centimetre	I need to shorten my jeans by one centimetre.