6-letter words containing c
- calles — Plutarco Elías [ploo-tahr-kaw e-lee-ahs] /pluˈtɑr kɔ ɛˈli ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1877–1945, Mexican general and statesman: president of Mexico 1924–28.
- callet — a scold
- calli- — beautiful
- callid — cunning or sly
- callop — an edible freshwater fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, of Australia, often golden or pale yellow in colour
- callot — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1592?–1635, French engraver and etcher.
- callow — A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.
- callup — Alternative spelling of call up.
- callus — A callus is an unwanted area of thick skin, usually on the palms of your hands or the soles of your feet, which has been caused by something rubbing against it.
- calmed — Simple past tense and past participle of calm.
- calmer — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calmly — You can use calmly to emphasize that someone is behaving in a very controlled or ordinary way in a frightening or unusual situation.
- calory — calorie
- calpac — a large black brimless hat made of sheepskin or felt, worn by men in parts of the Near East
- calque — a borrowing by which a specialized meaning of a word or phrase in one language is transferred to another language by a literal translation of each of the individual elements (Ex.: masterpiece, from German meisterstück)
- caltha — a yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plant, Caltha palustris, that grows in swampy places
- calved — Simple past tense and past participle of calve.
- calver — to prepare (a fish) while it is still fresh
- calves — calf1
- calvin — John, original name Jean Cauvin, Caulvin, or Chauvin. 1509–64, French theologian: a leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland, establishing the first presbyterian government in Geneva. His theological system is described in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- calvus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.
- cam-pc — (hardware) A cellular automata circuit board which is a hardware implementation from Automatrix of the MIT CAM-6 machine. It comes with dozens of experiments and applications.
- camaca — a heavy fabric of silk or mixed fibers, much used in the Middle Ages.
- camail — a neck and shoulders covering of mail worn with and laced to the basinet
- camass — any of several North American plants of the liliaceous genus Camassia, esp C. quamash, which has a cluster of blue or white flowers and a sweet edible bulb
- cambay — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
- cambia — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambio — a currency exchange.
- cambre — Obsolete form of camber.
- camden — a borough of N Greater London. Pop: 210 700 (2003 est). Area: 21 sq km (8 sq miles)
- camels — Plural form of camel.
- cameos — Plural form of cameo.
- camera — A camera is a piece of equipment that is used for taking photographs, making films, or producing television pictures.
- camest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of come.
- cameth — (hypercorrect, archaic) alternative third person singular past tense form of come.
- camion — a lorry, or, esp formerly, a large dray
- camisa — a smock or shirt
- camise — a loose light shirt, smock, or tunic originally worn in the Middle Ages
- camlet — a tough waterproof cloth
- cammed — Simple past tense and past participle of cam.
- cammer — One who uses a webcam; a webcammer.
- cammie — a webcam award
- camoca — a heavy fabric of silk or mixed fibers, much used in the Middle Ages.
- camões — Luˈiz Vaz de (luˈiʃ vaʒ də ) ; lo̅oēshˈ vȧzh də) 1524?-80; Port. epic poet
- camote — a sweet potato
- camped — If people are camped or camped out somewhere in the open air, they are living, staying, or waiting there, often in tents.
- camper — A camper is someone who is camping somewhere.
- campin — Robert. 1379–1444, Flemish painter, noted esp for his altarpieces: usually identified with the so-called Master of Flémalle
- cample — to argue