6-letter words containing c
- alcade — a mayor having judicial powers.
- alcaic — of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet
- alcamo — a city in NW Sicily, Italy, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Segesta.
- alcids — Plural form of alcid.
- alcman — 7th century bc, Greek lyric poet
- alcock — Sir John William. 1892–1919, English aviator who with A.W. Brown made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1919)
- alcool — a form of pure grain spirit distilled in Quebec
- alcott — Louisa May. 1832–88, US novelist, noted for her children's books, esp Little Women (1869)
- alcove — An alcove is a small area of a room which is formed by one part of a wall being built further back than the rest of the wall.
- alcuin — 735–804 ad, English scholar and theologian; friend and adviser of Charlemagne
- alcyon — Alternative form of halcyon.
- alecto — one of the three Furies; the others are Megaera and Tisiphone
- alerce — the wood of the sandarac tree
- alexic — relating to or of the neurological condition alexia
- alicia — a feminine name
- allice — A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa). (from 17th c.).
- almuce — a fur-lined hood or cape formerly worn by members of certain religious orders, more recently by canons of France
- alnico — an alloy of aluminium, nickel, cobalt, iron, and copper, used to make permanent magnets
- alpaca — Alpaca is a type of soft wool.
- alsace — a region and former province of NE France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine: famous for its wines. Area: 8280 sq km (3196 sq miles)
- altaic — a postulated family of languages of Asia and SE Europe, consisting of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic branches, and perhaps also Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
- amebic — of, relating to, or resembling an ameba.
- amerce — to punish by a fine
- amical — (now rare) Friendly, amicable.
- amicus — an abbreviation of amicus curiae
- aminic — relating to or containing an amine
- amorce — a percussion cap for a toy pistol
- amtrac — an amphibious tracked vehicle used primarily by the military for shore landings
- amurca — the lees or sediment of olive oil.
- amycus — a son of Poseidon and one of the Meliae, known for his ruthlessness and his skill at boxing.
- amylic — relating to or derived from amyl
- anancy — a character in Caribbean folklore, a cunning trickster generally depicted as a spider with a human head; the subject of many Anancy stories, the character has its origins among the Ashanti of W Africa
- anarch — an instigator or personification of anarchy
- anceps — (poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.
- anchal — Lb Nepal any administrative zone of Nepal.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- ancile — a shield that was said to have fallen from heaven, on whose preservation the fortune of Rome was thought to depend
- ancome — an inflammation or boil
- ancona — a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 bc. Pop: 100 507 (2001)
- ancone — an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame.
- ancony — A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
- ancora — encore
- ancred — (heraldry) Alternative form of anchored.
- andric — Ivo (ˈiːvɔ). 1892–1975, Serbian novelist; author of The Bridge on the Drina (1945): Nobel prize for literature 1961
- anemic — Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- anetic — soothing
- angico — the South American tree, Parapiptadenia rigida
- anglic — the English language in a simplified spelling devised by R. E. Zachrisson (1880–1937), a Swedish philologist, to make English easier to use as an auxiliary language. About 40 of the most frequent words are kept in their usual spellings; the rest of the vocabulary is spelled phonetically with letters of the traditional 26-letter alphabet.
- anicca — (in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing: the first of the three basic characteristics of existence