5-letter words containing c, r
- carid — (zoology) Any member of the Caridae.
- carie — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- carin — a female given name.
- carks — Plural form of cark.
- carky — Obsolete spelling of khaki (19th century).
- carla — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- carle — Scot. a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer. a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
- carls — Plural form of carl.
- carme — a nymph who was one of Diana's attendants and mother of Britomaris by Jupiter
- carne — Marcel (marsɛl). 1906–96, French film director. His films include Le Jour se lève (1939), Les Portes de la nuit (1946), and La Bible (1976)
- carny — to coax or cajole
- carob — A carob or carob tree is a Mediterranean tree that stays green all year round. It has dark-brown fruit that tastes similar to chocolate.
- carol — Carols are Christian religious songs that are sung at Christmas.
- carom — a shot in which the cue ball is caused to contact one object ball after another
- caron — an inverted circumflex
- carpi — of carpus
- carpo — an ancient Greek goddess of summer fruit, considered by Athenians as one of the Horae.
- carps — Plural form of carp.
- carry — If you carry something, you take it with you, holding it so that it does not touch the ground.
- carse — a riverside area of flat fertile alluvium
- carta — a charter
- carte — ˈRichard D'Oyly (ˈdɔɪli ) ; doiˈlē) 1844-1901; Eng. producer of Gilbert & Sullivan operas
- carts — Plural form of cart.
- carus — (medicine) coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
- carve — If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
- carvy — a caraway seed, esp one that is covered in sugar
- caryl — a male or female given name.
- caryn — a female given name.
- cater — In British English, to cater for a group of people means to provide all the things that they need or want. In American English, you say you cater to a person or group of people.
- cauri — a monetary unit of Guinea, the 100th part of a syli.
- caver — A caver is someone who goes into underground caves as a sport.
- ccirn — Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks.
- cd-rw — A CD-RW is a CD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another CD or from the Internet. CD-RW is an abbreviation for 'compact disc rewritable'.
- ceara — a state of NE Brazil: sandy coastal plain, rising to a high plateau. Capital: Fortaleza. Pop: 7 654 535 (2002). Area: 150 630 sq km (58 746 sq miles)
- cedar — A cedar or a cedar tree is a large evergreen tree with wide branches and small thin leaves called needles.
- ceder — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceorl — a freeman of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England
- ceram — one of the Molucca Islands, in Indonesia, west of New Guinea: 6,621 sq mi (17,148 sq km)
- ceras — (biology) a dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs.
- cerci — one of a pair of appendages at the rear of the abdomen of certain insects and other arthropods, serving as tactile organs.
- cered — Archaic. to wrap in or as if in a cerecloth, especially a corpse.
- ceres — the Roman goddess of agriculture
- cerge — a large altar candle
- ceria — cerium dioxide, CeO2, a white compound used as in ceramics
- ceric — of or containing cerium in the tetravalent state
- cero- — indicating the use of wax
- ceroc — a form of dance combining elements of jive and salsa
- cerro — a hill or peak.
- certs — Plural form of cert.
- ceryl — (chemistry) A radical, C27H55, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.