5-letter words containing c
- bacau — a city in E Romania on the River Bistrila: oil refining, textiles, paper. Pop: 128 000 (2005 est)
- bacca — a simple, fleshy, indehiscent fruit developing from a single ovary, such as the grape or cranberry
- baccy — Older Use. tobacco.
- bacha — a child or a young person
- bache — (obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.
- backs — a large tub, vat, or cistern used by dyers, brewers, distillers, etc., to hold liquids.
- bacne — acne on one's back: Bacne can cause pain and scarring.
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- baeck — Leo. 1873–1956, German Jewish theologian: a leader of the German Jews during the Nazi period; major work The Essence of Judaism (1905)
- balch — Emily Greene, 1867–1961, U.S. economist, sociologist, and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- banco — a call in gambling games such as chemin de fer and baccarat by a player or bystander who wishes to bet against the entire bank
- barca — the surname of several noted Carthaginian generals, including Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, and Hannibal
- barch — Bachelor of Architecture
- baric — of or containing barium
- basic — You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
- batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
- bbsrc — Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- bcc'd — to send (a duplicate of a document, email, or the like) to (someone whose name is not visible to the primary addressee).
- beach — A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- becap — to put a cap on someone's head
- beche — a grab for retrieving tools used in drilling a well.
- becks — Plural form of beck.
- becky — a female given name, form of Rebecca.
- bectu — Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union
- beech — A beech or a beech tree is a tree with a smooth grey trunk.
- belch — If someone belches, they make a sudden noise in their throat because air has risen up from their stomach.
- bench — A bench is a long seat of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on.
- bercy — a white sauce flavored with white wine, shallots, fish stock, and parsley: usually served with fish.
- biccy — a biscuit
- bicep — a biceps muscle, especially the one at the front of the upper arm.
- bices — either of two colors, bice blue or bice green.
- bicol — Bikol.
- big c — cancer (sense 4)
- birch — A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
- bitch — If someone calls a woman a bitch, they are saying in a very rude way that they think she behaves in a very unpleasant way.
- black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blanc — (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state
- bloch — Ernest. 1880–1959, US composer, born in Switzerland, who found inspiration in Jewish liturgical and folk music: his works include the symphonies Israel (1916) and America (1926)
- block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- bocca — the round opening of a glass-furnace from which the fused glass is taken
- bocce — an Italian variety of lawn bowling played on a dirt court that is shorter and narrower than the rink of a bowling green.
- boche — a German, esp a German soldier
- bocor — a malevolent voodoo priest of Haiti.
- boece — Boethius.
- bonce — Your bonce is your head.
- boric — of or containing boron
- bosch — Carl. 1874–1940, German chemist, who adapted the Haber process to produce ammonia for industrial use. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry 1931
- botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
- boyce — William. ?1710–79, English composer, noted esp for his church music and symphonies
- brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.