| rain dance | a ritual dance intended to bring rain |
Passero
Cape Passero | a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy () |
Cape May warbler
Dendroica tigrina | North American wood warbler, olive green and yellow striped with black |
Cape lobster
Homarus capensis | small lobster of southern Africa |
African hunting dog
hyena dog
Cape hunting dog
Lycaon pictus | a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs, now rare in settled area |
Cape buffalo
Synercus caffer | large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upwardurving horns, mostly in game reserves |
cape
mantle | a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter |
| rain barrel | a barrel used as a cistern to hold rainwater |
rain gauge
rain gage
pluviometer
udometer | gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation |
| rain stick | a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends, makes the sound of falling rain when tilted, origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain |
rain
pelting | anything happening rapidly or in quick successive, a rain of bullets, a pelting of insults |
| rain check | a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain |
| rain check | a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future |
rain forest
rainforest | a forest with heavy annual rainfall |
| temperate rain forest | a rain forest in a temperate area |
tropical rain forest
selva | a rain forest in a tropical area |
| rain shadow | an area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it |
| Cape Verde Islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
Cape Verde
Republic of Cape Verde | an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal |
Praia
Cidade de Praia
capital of Cape Verde | the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island |
| Cape Horn | a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego) |
Cape Passero
Passero Cape | a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily |
| Cape Breton Island | an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia |
| Cape Town | port city in southwestern South Africa, the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa |
Cape Province
Cape of Good Hope Province
Cape Colony | a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in and ceded to Great Britain in , in it was split into three new provinces of South Africa |
| Cape of Good Hope | a province of western South Africa |
| Cape of Good Hope | a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town) |
| Cape Ann | a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Cape Cod | a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic, a popular resort area |
| Cape Cod Canal | a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay |
| Cape Girardeau | a town in southeast Missouri |
| Cape May | a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Cape Fear | a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean |
| Cape Flattery | a cape of northwestern Washington |
| Cape Froward | a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile, the most southern point on the mainland of South America |
| Cape Hatteras | a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina, frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras |
cape
ness | a strip of land projecting into a body of water |
Cape Canaveral
Cape Kennedy | a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida, the site of a NASA center for spaceflight |
| Cape Cod Bay | the southern part of Massachusetts Bay |
| Cape Fear River | a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear |
| Cape Sable | a promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia |
| Cape Sable | a cape at the southwest tip of Florida, the southernmost part of the United States mainland |
| Cape Trafalgar | a small cape in southwestern Spain, Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar in |
| Cape York | the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait, the northernmost point of the Australian mainland |
| Cape York Peninsula | a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea |
nimbus
nimbus cloud
rain cloud | a dark grey cloud bearing rain |
Jupiter Pluvius
Rain-giver | an epithet for Jupiter |
| Rain-in-the-Face | a chief of the Sioux, he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn () when General Custer's troops were massacred (-) |
rain
rainfall | water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere |
shower
rain shower | a brief period of precipitation, the game was interrupted by a brief shower |