5-letter words containing a, c
- acock — in a cocked position
- acold — cold; chilled
- acoma — a Pueblo Indian village near Albuquerque, New Mexico, built on a sandstone mesa: oldest continuously inhabited location in the U.S.
- acorn — An acorn is a pale oval nut that is the fruit of an oak tree.
- acral — Of or pertaining to peripheral body parts, such as toes and fingers.
- acred — having acres of land
- acres — land, esp a large area
- acrid — An acrid smell or taste is strong and sharp, and usually unpleasant.
- acro- — denoting something at a height, summit, top, tip, beginning, or end
- acron — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the body of an arthropod.
- acrue — Misspelling of accrue.
- acrux — a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Southern Cross.
- act 1 — Algebraic Compiler and Translator
- acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- acter — A play or film with a particular number of acts.
- actin — a protein that participates in many kinds of cell movement, including muscle contraction, during which it interacts with filaments of a second protein, myosin
- actis — a son of Rhoda and Helius who, when banished from his home for fratricide, fled to Egypt, where he taught astrology. The Colossus of Rhodes was built in his honor.
- acton — a jacket or jerkin, originally of quilted cotton, worn under a coat of mail
- actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
- actos — a short, realistic play, usually in Spanish, that dramatizes the social and economic problems of Chicanos.
- actra — Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists
- actus — An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 35.5 metres.
- acuff — Roy1903-92; U.S. composer & country music singer
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- adccp — Advanced Data Communications Control Protocol
- adpcm — Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation
- adunc — hooked; curved inward
- aecia — the fruiting body of rust fungi, which bears chainlike or stalked spores.
- afric — African.
- agric — agricultural
- aitch — the letter h or the sound represented by it
- aituc — All India Trade Union Congress
- alack — used to express regret, surprise, dismay, etc.
- alcid — any of twenty-two species of oceanic birds of the family Alcidae
- alcon — a noted archer who helped Hercules abduct the cattle of Geryon.
- alcor — (language) A subset of ALGOL.
- aleck — a male given name, form of Alexander.
- alecs — Plural form of alec.
- alice — a feminine name: dim. Elsie; var. Alicia
- alick — a male given name, form of Alexander.
- altac — (language) An extended Fortran II for the Philco 2000, built on TAC.
- alyce — a female given name.
- amice — a rectangular piece of white linen worn by priests around the neck and shoulders under the alb or, formerly, on the head
- amici — An impartial adviser, often voluntary, to a court of law in a particular case.
- amock — (very rare) alternative spelling of amok.
- amuck — amok
- ancho — a Poblano chilli pepper that has been dried and turned a dark-red or black colour
- ancon — a projecting bracket or console supporting a cornice
- ancre — having the end of each limb divided and carved outward like the flukes of an anchor; moline: a cross ancré.
- antic — an actor in a ludicrous or grotesque part; clown; buffoon