Drinks That Start With C

11 drinks Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 11 drinks that start with C, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

With eleven drinks, C is crowded with cafe orders. Coffee and cappuccino are the warm favorites, and chai is a spiced milky tea from India.

The cold side is just as full. Cola and cream soda are fizzy, and coconut water is the clear, sweet liquid from inside a young coconut. Chocolate milk is the pick most young children will name first. Many C entries are two-word names, so this page works well for practising compound words and adjectives in class, from cream to club to chocolate.

Drinks starting with C: 11
Best known: coffee, cola
Longest name: carbonated water

Best-known drinks that start with C

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

coffee
cola
cocoa
chocolate milk
cappuccino
club soda
cream soda
cranberry juice
chai
coconut water

All drinks that start with C

#	Name	What it is
1	cappuccino	equal parts of espresso and hot milk topped with cinnamon and nutmeg and usually whipped cream
2	carbonated water	effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide
3	chai	spiced milky tea from India
4	chocolate milk	milk flavored with chocolate syrup
5	club soda	effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide
6	cocoa	a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
7	coconut water	clear sweet liquid from inside young coconuts
8	coffee	a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
9	cola	carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
10	cranberry juice	the juice of cranberries (always diluted and sweetened)
11	cream soda	sweet carbonated drink flavored with vanilla

Short drinks with C

cola
cocoa
chai

Questions people ask

How many drinks start with C?

This list has 11 drinks starting with C, from well-known ones like coffee, cola, cocoa to rarer kinds.

What drinks start with C?

Well-known examples are coffee, cola, cocoa, chocolate milk, cappuccino, club soda, cream soda, cranberry juice.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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