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Cardamom

Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum, elaichi), a Zingiberaceae spice from southern India; aromatic green capsules with 3.5–7% essential oil, led by α-terpinyl acetate and 1,8-cineole; Guatemala now the top producer and exporter; distinct from black cardamom (Amomum subulatum).

Cardassian

Cardassians are a fictional Star Trek species introduced in The Next Generation in 1991, rulers of the Cardassian Union and occupiers of Bajor, central to Deep Space Nine through Gul Dukat, Garak, and the Obsidian Order; unrelatedly, a Cardassian cosmology model exists.

Cardcaptor Sakura (カードキャプターさくら)

Cardcaptor Sakura (カードキャプターさくら) is CLAMP's magical girl manga serialized in Nakayoshi 1996-2000 (12 volumes), about Sakura Kinomoto capturing the Clow Cards; NHK anime 1998-2000 in 70 episodes, Clear Card sequel 2016-2024, over 22 million copies printed.

Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card (劇場版カードキャプターさくら 封印されたカード)

Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card (劇場版カードキャプターさくら 封印されたカード) is a 2000 Madhouse anime film directed by Morio Asaka, concluding the NHK TV series as Sakura faces the 53rd Nothing Clow Card and answers Syaoran's confession.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編)

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編) is CLAMP's 2016–2024 shojo manga sequel to Cardcaptor Sakura, serialized in Nakayoshi for 80 chapters across 16 volumes, following junior-high Sakura and transparent cards; it received an NHK anime in 2018 and an announced sequel.

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (劇場版カードキャプターさくら) is a 1999 Madhouse anime film, the first theatrical Cardcaptor Sakura adaptation, directed by Morio Asaka, in which Sakura wins a Hong Kong trip and battles Clow Reed's old enemy, the Madoushi.

Cardi B

Cardi B is the stage name of Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar (born 1992), an American rapper from the Bronx whose 2017 single "Bodak Yellow" topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Cardi B discography

Cardi B discography: two mixtapes (Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1–2), the Grammy-winning debut Invasion of Privacy (2018), the 2025 No. 1 album Am I the Drama?, and diamond-certified singles Bodak Yellow, I Like It, and WAP.

Cardigan (song)

"Cardigan" (stylized lowercase) is Taylor Swift's 2020 Folklore lead single, written and produced with Aaron Dessner; it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and anchors the Teenage Love Triangle trilogy with "august" and "betty".

Cardigan (sweater)

Cardigan sweater: a front-opening knitted sweater fastened with buttons, zips, or snaps, named after the 7th Earl of Cardigan of the Crimean War; word in use since 1856, popularized for women by Coco Chanel in the 1920s.

Cardinal (The Americans)

"Cardinal" is the second episode of season 2 of FX's The Americans, aired March 5, 2014. Written by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, directed by Daniel Sackheim; Philip investigates the Emmet and Leah murders while a walk-in reaches the Rezidentura.

Cardinal (TV series)

Cardinal is a Canadian CTV crime drama (2017–2020), four six-episode seasons adapting Giles Blunt's John Cardinal novels, starring Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse as Algonquin Bay detectives; 2020 Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Drama Series.

Carding

Carding: textile fiber-preparation process using wire-toothed cards or carding machines to disentangle, align, blend, and clean cotton or wool before spinning; woollen roving versus worsted sliver; from 13th-century hand cards to Arkwright's 1775 machine.

Cardopusher

Cardopusher is the performance name of Luis Garbán Valdeón, a Venezuelan-born DJ and producer based in Barcelona who began in breakcore and also records as Safety Trance.

Care Bears

Care Bears: American Greetings greeting-card characters from 1981, developed by Those Characters From Cleveland, turned into Kenner plush and 1980s animated series set in Care-a-Lot, with belly badges, Cousins, films, reboots, and over $12 billion in retail sales.

Care Package (album)

Care Package, a compilation album by Canadian rapper Drake, was released August 2, 2019, by OVO Sound. It features 17 songs originally released between 2010 and 2016.

Career Girls

Career Girls is a 1997 British comedy-drama by Mike Leigh, his follow-up to Secrets & Lies, starring Katrin Cartlidge and Lynda Steadman as former college roommates reuniting in London six years on, told with flashbacks and a Cure-only soundtrack.

Career of Evil

Career of Evil (2015) is the third Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym. A woman's severed leg is sent to Robin Ellacott with a Blue Öyster Cult lyric, leading Strike to four suspects from his past; adapted as two BBC One episodes with Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.

Career Opportunities (film)

Career Opportunities is a 1991 American romantic comedy directed by Bryan Gordon, written by John Hughes, starring Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly locked in a Target store overnight; released March 29, 1991, it grossed about $11 million and received mixed reviews.

Carefree

Carefree (1938) is an RKO screwball-flavored musical comedy directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire as psychiatrist Tony Flagg and Ginger Rogers as hypnotized Amanda Cooper, with an Irving Berlin score; it earned $1,731,000 yet lost RKO $68,000.

Careful What You Wish For (film)

Careful What You Wish For is a 2015 American erotic thriller directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, starring Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, and Dermot Mulroney; released in the US June 10, 2016, it scored 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and 32 on Metacritic.

Careful, He Might Hear You

Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1963 debut novel by Sumner Locke Elliott about a custody battle between two sisters over a six-year-old boy, winner of the Miles Franklin Award.

Carel Fabritius

Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) was a Dutch painter and Rembrandt pupil who worked in Delft, best known for The Goldfinch; he died in the 1654 Delft gunpowder explosion.

Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken (born 1948, The Hague) is the 2.13 m tall Dutch character actor who played Lurch in The Addams Family, The Giant in Twin Peaks, and Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Careless (TV series)

Careless is an upcoming four-part Australian-British psychological thriller, a Stan Original with Channel 4, created by Helen Fitzgerald and Louise Fox, starring Solly McLeod, Richard Roxburgh and Robyn Malcolm, filmed in Sydney and Glasgow.

Careless People

Careless People (2025) is Sarah Wynn-Williams's memoir of her 2011-2017 tenure as Facebook's director of global public policy, published by Flatiron Books; Meta's gag-order attempt made it a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Careless Whisper

Careless Whisper: 1984 pop ballad co-written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, released as Michael's debut UK solo single and Wham! feat. George Michael in the US; 25-country No. 1 with Steve Gregory's famous sax riff.

Carême (TV series)

Carême is a French-language Apple TV+ biographical drama (2025) about chef Antonin Carême, the "first celebrity chef," turned spy for Talleyrand in Napoleonic France. Created by Ian Kelly and Davide Serino, starring Benjamin Voisin; renewed for a second season in 2026.

Caren Pistorius

Caren Pistorius (born 1990, Rustenburg, South Africa) is a New Zealand-based actor known for Slow West (2015), Unhinged (2020) opposite Russell Crowe, and The Marsh King's Daughter (2023).

Caress of Steel

Caress of Steel (September 1975) is Rush's third studio album and first full progressive rock record, with the epics The Necromancer and The Fountain of Lamneth. It reached only Billboard No. 148, failed commercially, and precipitated the 'Down the Tubes' tour before 2112 rescued the band.