10-letter words containing c, a, n
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- campignian — of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
- can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
- can't wait — be impatient for
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- canaan dog — a strongly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect ears, a dense coat, and a bushy tail carried curled over its back
- canaanitic — a group of ancient languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family and including Canaanite, Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Hebrew
- canada act — the act of the British parliament of 1962 that transferred to the Canadian federal government complete control over the constitution of Canada.
- canada day — (in Canada) July 1, the anniversary of the day in 1867 when Canada became the first British colony to receive dominion status: a bank holiday
- canada jay — a large common jay of North America, Perisoreus canadensis, with a grey body, and a white-and-black crestless head
- canal boat — A canal boat is a long, narrow boat used for travelling on canals.
- canal rays — rays of positive ions passing through openings in the cathode of a vacuum tube
- canal zone — a former administrative region of the US, on the Isthmus of Panama around the Panama Canal: bordered on each side by the Republic of Panama, into which it was incorporated in 1979
- canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
- canalising — Present participle of canalise.
- canalizing — Present participle of canalize.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancelable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
- cancellate — having a spongy or porous internal structure
- cancelling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancellous — having a porous or spongelike structure
- cancerette — (slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
- cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
- cancionero — a songbook
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- candelilla — either of two wax-coated Mexican shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Pedilanthus pavonis (or bracteatus)
- candescent — glowing or starting to glow with heat
- candidated — a person who seeks an office, honor, etc.: a candidate for governor.
- candidates — Plural form of candidate.
- candidness — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
- candy cane — A candy cane is a stick of red and white candy with a curve at one end.
- candy corn — a small candy shaped and colored to look like a kernel of corn.
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).