6-letter words containing a, c, e, n
- canoed — Simple past tense and past participle of canoe.
- canoer — a person who travels in a canoe
- canoes — Plural form of canoe.
- canted — a salient angle.
- cantel — Alternative form of cantle.
- canter — When a horse canters, it moves at a speed that is slower than a gallop but faster than a trot.
- cantle — the back part of a saddle that slopes upwards
- canute — died 1035, Danish king of England (1016–35), Denmark (1018–35), and Norway (1028–35). He defeated Edmund II of England (1016), but divided the kingdom with him until Edmund's death. An able ruler, he invaded Scotland (1027) and drove Olaf II from Norway (1028)
- capone — Alphonse, called Al. 1899–1947, US gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
- careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- carene — (religion, obsolete) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
- carine — (obsolete) A keel.
- carmen — an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet.
- carnet — a customs licence authorizing the temporary importation of a motor vehicle
- carney — Mark (Joseph). born 1965, Canadian banker; governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013); governor of the Bank of England from 2013
- carnie — Alternative spelling of carny.
- carven — carve
- casein — a phosphoprotein, precipitated from milk by the action of rennin, forming the basis of cheese: used in the manufacture of plastics and adhesives
- casern — (formerly) a billet or accommodation for soldiers in a town
- casten — (archaic, poetic) Past participle of cast.
- catena — a connected series, esp of patristic comments on the Bible
- cavein — a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
- cavern — A cavern is a large deep cave.
- cedant — The cedant is the person or company that cedes business to another person or company.
- cedarn — of or relating to cedar trees
- cendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- cental — a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms)
- centas — a former monetary unit of Lithuania, worth one hundredth of a litas
- centra — a plural of centrum.
- cernan — Eugene Andrew, born 1934, U.S. astronaut.
- cesena — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna. Pop: 90 948 (2001)
- cetane — a colourless insoluble liquid alkane hydrocarbon used in the determination of the cetane number of diesel fuel. Formula: C16H34
- chaine — (in dancing) relating to the movement in which a full rotation is made for every two steps taken
- chance — If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen.
- chanel — Gabrielle (ɡabriɛl), known as Coco Chanel. 1883–1971, French couturière and perfumer, who created "the little black dress" and the perfume Chanel No. 5
- chaney — Lon [lon] /lɒn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1930, U.S. film actor.
- change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- chelan — Lake, a lake in N central Washington, in the Cascade Range: one of the deepest freshwater lakes in the U.S. 55 miles (89 km) long.
- chenab — a river rising in the Himalayas and flowing southwest to the Sutlej River in Pakistan. Length: 1087 km (675 miles)
- chenar — the oriental plane tree
- cinema — A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment.
- cleane — Obsolete spelling of clean.
- cleans — Plural form of clean.
- cnidae — a nematocyst.
- cornea — The cornea is the transparent skin covering the outside of your eye.
- crance — (nautical) An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay.
- craned — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- cranes — Plural form of crane.
- craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
- creant — creating or creative; formative