5-letter words containing c, n
- cowen — Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry). (18th century).
- coyne — Obsolete spelling of coin.
- cozen — to cheat or trick (someone)
- crane — A crane is a large machine that moves heavy things by lifting them in the air.
- crank — If you call someone a crank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange.
- crans — Plural form of cran.
- crena — a notch or indentation
- creon — the successor to Oedipus as king of Thebes; the brother of Jocasta
- crine — the hair
- crone — A crone is an ugly old woman.
- cronk — unfit; unsound
- crony — You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as their cronies, especially when you disapprove of them.
- croon — If you croon, you sing or hum quietly and gently.
- crown — A crown is a circular ornament, usually made of gold and jewels, which a king or queen wears on their head at official ceremonies. You can also use crown to refer to anything circular that is worn on someone's head.
- crunk — a form of hip-hop music originating in the southern states of the US
- csnet — Computers and Science Network, operated by CREN for US computer science institutes. It provides electronic mail service via dial-up lines, X.25 and Internet services.
- ctene — the locomotor organ of ctenophores
- cuban — Cuban means belonging or relating to Cuba, or to its people or culture.
- cuing — a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- cumin — Cumin is a sweet-smelling spice, and is popular in Indian cooking.
- cundy — a drain or drain entrance
- cunei — Anatomy. a wedge-shaped convolution on the medial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum.
- cuneo — a city in NW Italy, in Piedmont. Pop: 52 334 (2001)
- cunha — Tristão da [treesh-toun] /triʃˈtãʊ̃/ (Show IPA), 1460–1540? Portuguese navigator and explorer.
- cunji — (Australia, colloquial) short for cunjevoi.
- cunny — Obsolete form of cony (
- cunts — the vulva or vagina.
- curns — a grain.
- curny — granular
- cutan — (biochemistry) A hydrocarbon polymer, of uncertain structure but thought to be similar to kerogen, found in some plants.
- cutin — a waxy waterproof substance, consisting of derivatives of fatty acids, that is the main constituent of plant cuticle
- cyan- — cyano-
- cyano — containing the cyano group.
- cynic — A cynic is someone who believes that people always act selfishly.
- cyno- — indicating a dog
- cyton — the central part of a neuron
- dance — If you dance a particular kind of dance, you do it or perform it.
- dancy — (of music) appropriate for dancing
- decan — any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
- decon — Abbreviation of decontamination.
- dench — Dame Judi (Olivia). born 1934, British actress and theatre director: her film roles include Mrs Brown (1997), Notes on a Scandal (2006), and, from1995 to 2012, 'M' in the James Bond series of films
- dinic — a medicine for vertigo
- dunce — a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt.
- dunch — a push or nudge with the elbow
- duncy — Like a dunce.
- econ. — economical
- enact — Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
- encke — Johann Franz. 1791–1865, German astronomer, who discovered Encke's Division in the outer ring of Saturn
- encl. — enclosed
- encur — Alternative form of incur.