6-letter words containing r, a, n
- cardon — a tall cactus, Pachycereus pringlei, native to Mexico
- careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- carene — (religion, obsolete) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
- carian — a native or inhabitant of Caria.
- carina — a keel-like part or ridge, as in the breastbone of birds or the fused lower petals of a leguminous flower
- carine — (obsolete) A keel.
- caring — If someone is caring, they are affectionate, helpful, and sympathetic.
- carlin — an old woman.
- carman — a man who drives a car or cart; carter
- carmen — an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet.
- carnac — a village in NW France: noted for its many megalithic monuments, including alignments of stone menhirs
- carnal — Carnal feelings and desires are sexual and physical, without any spiritual element.
- carnap — Rudolf. 1891–1970, US logical positivist philosopher, born in Germany: attempted to construct a formal language for the empirical sciences that would eliminate ambiguity
- carnet — a customs licence authorizing the temporary importation of a motor vehicle
- carney — Mark (Joseph). born 1965, Canadian banker; governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013); governor of the Bank of England from 2013
- carnie — Alternative spelling of carny.
- carnot — Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) (lazar), known as the Organizer of Victory. 1753–1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793–95)
- carnyx — a bronze Celtic war trumpet
- caroni — a river in SE Venezuela, flowing N to the Orinoco River. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- caroon — (UK, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- carson — Christopher, known as Kit Carson. 1809–68, US frontiersman, trapper, scout, and Indian agent
- carton — A carton is a plastic or cardboard container in which food or drink is sold.
- carven — carve
- casern — (formerly) a billet or accommodation for soldiers in a town
- cavern — A cavern is a large deep cave.
- cedarn — of or relating to cedar trees
- centra — a plural of centrum.
- cernan — Eugene Andrew, born 1934, U.S. astronaut.
- charon — the ferryman who brought the dead across the rivers Styx or Acheron to Hades
- chenar — the oriental plane tree
- chinar — The oriental plane tree, native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran.
- citran — (language) Caltech's answer to MIT's JOSS.
- conrad — Joseph. real name Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski. 1857–1924, British novelist born in Poland, noted for sea stories such as The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) and Lord Jim (1900) and novels of politics and revolution such as Nostromo (1904) and Under Western Eyes (1911)
- contra — against
- corant — A coranto (kind of dance).
- corban — a gift to God
- cornea — The cornea is the transparent skin covering the outside of your eye.
- cornua — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corona — The sun's corona is its outer atmosphere.
- coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- crance — (nautical) An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay.
- craned — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- cranes — Plural form of crane.
- crania — the skull of a vertebrate.
- cranko — John. 1927–73, British choreographer, born in South Africa: director of the Stuttgart Ballet (1961–73)
- cranks — Plural form of crank.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- cranny — Crannies are very narrow openings or spaces in something.
- crants — a garland or wreath carried in front of a maiden's bier
- craton — a stable part of the earth's continental crust or lithosphere that has not been deformed significantly for many millions, even hundreds of millions, of years