5-letter words containing e, a
- cates — choice dainty food; delicacies
- cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- caved — Past participle of cave.
- cavel — a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
- caver — A caver is someone who goes into underground caves as a sport.
- caves — Plural form of cave.
- cavie — a hen coop
- cawed — Simple past tense and past participle of caw.
- cayce — a town in central South Carolina.
- cayes — a seaport on the SW coast of Haiti.
- cayey — a city in central Puerto Rico.
- 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.
- cecal — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cedar — A cedar or a cedar tree is a large evergreen tree with wide branches and small thin leaves called needles.
- ceiba — any bombacaceous tropical tree of the genus Ceiba, such as the silk-cotton tree
- celan — Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution
- celia — a feminine name
- cella — the inner room of a classical temple, esp the room housing the statue of a deity
- 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.
- ceria — cerium dioxide, CeO2, a white compound used as in ceramics
- cesta — (in jai alai) the long basket used to throw and catch the ball
- ceuta — an enclave in Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar, consisting of a port and military station: held by Spain since 1580. Pop: 74 931 (2003 est)
- chace — (obsolete) chase; pursue.
- chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- chape — a metal tip or trimming for a scabbard
- chare — a chore, esp. a household chore
- chase — If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.
- chate — (Scotland) To cheat.
- chave — I have
- cheap — Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
- chear — (obsolete) cheer.
- cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- cheka — the secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik government: reorganized in the Soviet Union in Dec 1922 as the GPU
- chela — a large pincer-like claw of such arthropods as the crab and scorpion
- chewa — a member of a Negroid people of Malawi, E Zambia, and N Zimbabwe, related to the Bemba
- clade — a group of organisms considered as having evolved from a common ancestor
- claes — (Scotland) clothes.
- clane — Eye dialect of clean.
- clare — a county of W Republic of Ireland, in Munster between Galway Bay and the Shannon estuary. County town: Ennis. Pop: 103 277 (2002). Area: 3188 sq km (1231 sq miles)
- clave — one of a pair of hardwood sticks struck together to make a hollow sound, esp to mark the beat of Latin-American dance music
- clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
- cleat — A cleat is a kind of hook with two ends which is used to hold ropes, especially on sailing boats.
- cname — (networking) The canonical name query type for Domain Name System. This query asks a DNS server for a host's official hostname.
- coate — Obsolete form of coat.
- comae — Plural form of coma (In the cometary nuclear dust cloud sense.).
- corea — Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- coxae — Anatomy. innominate bone. the joint of the hip.