5-letter words containing c
- cayes — a seaport on the SW coast of Haiti.
- cayey — a city in central Puerto Rico.
- cbing — the operating of a CB radio.
- cc'ed — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- ccalc — A symbolic mathematics system for MS-DOS, available from Simtel.
- ccanz — Council of Churches in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- ccirn — Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks.
- ccitt — Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993.
- 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)
- cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- cebid — any member of the Cebidae, a family of New World monkeys
- cecal — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cechy — Bohemia2
- cecil — Lord David. 1902–86, English literary critic and biographer
- cecum — the pouch that is the beginning of the large intestine
- cedar — A cedar or a cedar tree is a large evergreen tree with wide branches and small thin leaves called needles.
- ceded — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceder — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- cedes — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceiba — any bombacaceous tropical tree of the genus Ceiba, such as the silk-cotton tree
- ceili — A social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
- ceils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ceil.
- celan — Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
- celeb — A celeb is the same as a celebrity.
- celia — a feminine name
- celip — (language) A cellular language for image processing.
- cella — the inner room of a classical temple, esp the room housing the statue of a deity
- celle — a city in N Germany, on the Aller River in Lower Saxony: from 1378 to 1705 the residence of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Pop: 71 319 (2003 est)
- celli — (rare) Plural form of cello.
- cello — A cello is a musical instrument with four strings that looks like a large violin. You play the cello with a bow while sitting down and holding it upright between your legs.
- cells — a wireless telephone using a system of low-powered radio transmitters, with each transmitter covering a distinct geographical area (cell) and computer equipment to switch a call from one area to another, thus enabling broad-scale portable phone service.
- celly — (slang) cellmate.
- celom — coelom
- celts — Plural form of celt.
- cenci — a verse tragedy (1819) by Shelley.
- cenis — Montmountain pass between France and Italy in the Graian Alps: 6,830 ft (2,082 m) high
- ceno- — common
- cense — to burn incense near or before (an altar, shrine, etc)
- cento — a piece of writing, esp a poem, composed of quotations from other authors
- cents — a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- 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