5-letter words containing i, c
- cribs — A young child's bed with barred or latticed sides.
- crick — If you have a crick in your neck or in your back, you have a pain there caused by muscles becoming stiff.
- cried — cry
- crier — a person or animal that cries
- cries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cry.
- crile — George Washington1864-1943; U.S. surgeon
- crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
- crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- crims — Plural form of crim.
- crine — the hair
- crios — a multicoloured woven woollen belt traditionally worn by men in the Aran Islands
- crips — Plural form of crip.
- crise — crisis.
- crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- crit. — critic
- crith — a unit of weight for gases, equal to the weight of one litre of hydrogen at standard pressure and temperature (0.09 grams)
- crits — Plural form of crit.
- crius — a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- croci — Plural form of crocus.
- csiro — Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- cslip — Compressed SLIP
- cubic — Cubic is used in front of units of length to form units of volume such as 'cubic metre' and 'cubic foot'.
- cubit — an ancient measure of length based on the length of the forearm
- cufic — Kufic
- cuing — a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- cuish — a piece of armor or padding for protecting the thigh.
- culti — a cult.
- cumin — Cumin is a sweet-smelling spice, and is popular in Indian cooking.
- cunei — Anatomy. a wedge-shaped convolution on the medial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum.
- cunji — (Australia, colloquial) short for cunjevoi.
- cupid — Cupid is the Roman god of love. He is usually shown as a baby boy with wings and a bow and arrow.
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- cutie — a person regarded as appealing or attractive, esp a girl or woman
- cutin — a waxy waterproof substance, consisting of derivatives of fatty acids, that is the main constituent of plant cuticle
- cutis — the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- cybil — Control Data's system programming language in the 80's. Major parts of CDC systems written in this.
- cylix — kylix
- cynic — A cynic is someone who believes that people always act selfishly.
- cyril — Saint. ?827–869 ad, Greek Christian theologian, missionary to the Moravians and inventor of the Cyrillic alphabet; he and his brother Saint Methodius were called the Apostles of the Slavs. Feast day: Feb 14 or May 11
- cyrix — (company) A microprocessor manufacturer. They produce an Intel 486 equivalent - the Cy486SLC and a Pentium equivalent - the Cyrix 6x86.
- dacia — an ancient region bounded by the Carpathians, the Tisza, and the Danube, roughly corresponding to modern Romania. United under kings from about 60 bc, it later contained the Roman province of the same name (about 105 to 270 ad)
- daric — a gold coin of ancient Persia
- deci- — denoting one tenth; 10–1
- deice — to free of ice; prevent or remove ice formation on, as the wing of an airplane.
- demic — characteristic of or pertaining to a people or population
- diact — an abbreviation of diactine
- diced — cut into small cubes