5-letter words containing c
- achee — Alternative spelling of akee.
- acher — (obsolete) usher.
- aches — Plural form of ache.
- achoo — Achoo is used, especially in writing, to represent the sound that you make when you sneeze.
- achor — (obsolete, pathology) dandruff (or similar condition).
- acids — Plural form of acid.
- acidy — of the nature of or resembling acid; sharp; sour: an acidy taste.
- acing — Present participle of ace.
- acini — Botany. one of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate, baccate fruit, as the blackberry.
- ackee — a sapindaceous tree, Blighia sapida, native to tropical Africa and cultivated in the Caribbean for its fruit, edible when cooked
- acker — a pimple
- ackey — a silver coin minted in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for use in western Africa.
- acmes — Plural form of acme.
- acmic — the highest point; summit; peak: The empire was at the acme of its power.
- acned — blemished by acne
- 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.