6-letter words containing a, c
- alpaca — Alpaca is a type of soft wool.
- alsace — a region and former province of NE France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine: famous for its wines. Area: 8280 sq km (3196 sq miles)
- altaic — a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
- amebic — of, relating to, or resembling an ameba.
- amerce — to punish by a fine
- amical — (now rare) Friendly, amicable.
- amicus — an abbreviation of amicus curiae
- aminic — relating to or containing an amine
- amorce — a percussion cap for a toy pistol
- amtrac — an amphibious tracked vehicle used primarily by the military for shore landings
- amurca — the lees or sediment of olive oil.
- amycus — a son of Poseidon and one of the Meliae, known for his ruthlessness and his skill at boxing.
- amylic — relating to or derived from amyl
- anancy — a character in Caribbean folklore, a cunning trickster generally depicted as a spider with a human head; the subject of many Anancy stories, the character has its origins among the Ashanti of W Africa
- anarch — an instigator or personification of anarchy
- anceps — (poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.
- anchal — Lb Nepal any administrative zone of Nepal.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- ancile — a shield that was said to have fallen from heaven, on whose preservation the fortune of Rome was thought to depend
- ancome — an inflammation or boil
- ancona — a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 bc. Pop: 100 507 (2001)
- ancone — an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame.
- ancony — A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
- ancora — encore
- ancred — (heraldry) Alternative form of anchored.
- andric — Ivo (ˈiːvɔ). 1892–1975, Serbian novelist; author of The Bridge on the Drina (1945): Nobel prize for literature 1961
- anemic — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- anetic — soothing
- angico — the South American tree, Parapiptadenia rigida
- anglic — the English language in a simplified spelling devised by R. E. Zachrisson (1880–1937), a Swedish philologist, to make English easier to use as an auxiliary language. About 40 of the most frequent words are kept in their usual spellings; the rest of the vocabulary is spelled phonetically with letters of the traditional 26-letter alphabet.
- anicca — (in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing: the first of the three basic characteristics of existence
- anicut — a dam, found in streams in India, which serves to control the flow of an irrigation system
- anisic — relating to or resulting from anise
- anlace — a medieval short dagger with a broad tapering blade
- annecy — a city and resort in E France, on Lake Annecy. Pop: 52 890 (2006)
- anodic — pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- anomic — a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- anoxic — an abnormally low amount of oxygen in the body tissues; hypoxia.
- ansi c — (language, standard) (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989.
- antarc — Antarctica
- antica — pronaos.
- antick — antic
- antics — Antics are funny, silly, or unusual ways of behaving.
- anuric — having anuria
- aortic — the main trunk of the arterial system, conveying blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all of the body except the lungs.
- apache — a member of a North American Indian people, formerly nomadic and warlike, inhabiting the southwestern US and N Mexico
- apercu — outline
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- apices — apex