6-letter words containing a, c, e
- cammie — a webcam award
- camões — Luˈiz Vaz de (luˈiʃ vaʒ də ) ; lo̅oēshˈ vȧzh də) 1524?-80; Port. epic poet
- camote — a sweet potato
- camped — If people are camped or camped out somewhere in the open air, they are living, staying, or waiting there, often in tents.
- camper — A camper is someone who is camping somewhere.
- cample — to argue
- canace — Classical Mythology. a daughter of Aeolus who committed suicide at her father's command because of her incestuous relations with her brother Macareus.
- canale — An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
- canape — Canapés are small pieces of biscuit or toast with food such as meat, cheese, or pâté on top. They are often served with drinks at parties.
- cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
- cancer — Cancer is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a crab. People who are born approximately between the 21st of June and the 22nd of July come under this sign.
- candie — a South Indian unit of weight, usually containing 20 maunds
- candle — A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.
- caners — Plural form of caner.
- cangle — to wrangle
- cangue — (formerly in China) a large wooden collar worn by petty criminals as a punishment
- canine — Canine means relating to dogs.
- canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
- cankle — a thickened area between the calf and ankle in an overweight person, obscuring where one ends and the other begins
- cannae — an ancient city in SE Italy: scene of a victory by Hannibal over the Romans (216 bc)
- canned — Canned music, laughter, or applause on a television or radio programme has been recorded beforehand and is added to the programme to make it sound as if there is a live audience.
- cannel — an oily, compact coal, burning readily and brightly.
- canner — a person or organization whose job is to can foods
- cannes — a port and resort in SE France: developed in the 19th century from a fishing village; annual film festival. Pop: 72 939 (2008)
- 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)
- capers — the flower buds of the caper plant, which are pickled and used as a condiment
- caples — Plural form of caple.
- caplet — A caplet is an oval tablet of medicine.
- capone — Alphonse, called Al. 1899–1947, US gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
- capote — a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood
- capped — a capital letter.
- capper — a person or device that caps something or makes caps
- carafe — A carafe is a glass container in which you serve water or wine.
- carcel — a former French unit of light equal to about 9.74 candelas
- carded — a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- carder — a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- cardie — A cardie is the same as a cardigan.
- careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- career — A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
- carême — the forty days of Lent
- carene — (religion, obsolete) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
- carers — Plural form of carer.
- caress — If you caress someone, you stroke them gently and affectionately.