5-letter words containing ca
- cadiz — the usual, anglicized spelling of Cádiz
- cadre — A cadre is a small group of people who have been specially chosen, trained, and organized for a particular purpose.
- caeca — cecum.
- caese — a Shakespearean interjection of uncertain meaning
- cafes — Plural form of cafe.
- caged — A caged bird or animal is inside a cage.
- cager — a basketball player
- cages — Plural form of cage.
- cagey — If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
- cagot — a member of a class of French outcasts who lived in the West Pyrenees, Béarn, Brittany, and Gascony, considered to be lepers and heretics
- cahan — Abraham ("Abe") 1860–1951, U.S. novelist and journalist, born in Russia.
- cahow — a rare nocturnal Atlantic seabird, Pterodroma cahow, with brown and white plumage, formerly thought to be extinct
- caids — Plural form of caid.
- caine — Sir Michael. real name Maurice Micklewhite. born 1933, British film actor. His films include The Ipcress File (1965), Get Carter (1971), Educating Rita (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and The Cider House Rules (1999)
- caird — a travelling tinker; vagrant
- cairn — A cairn is a pile of stones which marks a boundary, a route across rough ground, or the top of a mountain. A cairn is sometimes also built in memory of someone.
- cairo — the capital of Egypt, on the Nile: the largest city in Africa and in the Middle East; industrial centre; site of the university and mosque of Al Azhar (founded in 972). Pop: 11 146 000 (2005 est)
- caise — Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering.
- caius — Saint, died a.d. 296, pope 283–296.
- cajal — Santiago Ramon y. 1852–1934, Spanish histologist, a pioneer of modern neurophysiology: shared the Nobel prize for medicine 1906
- cajan — a member of a group of people living in parts of the South, especially Alabama, whose ancestry is a mixture of white, black, and possibly Indian.
- cajon — a Peruvian wooden box used as a drum and played with the hands
- cajun — Cajun means belonging or relating to a group of people who live mainly in Louisiana in the United States, and are descended from French people. Cajun is also used to refer to the language and culture of these people.
- caked — If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
- cakes — Plural form of cake.
- cakey — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- cakra — any of the points of spiritual power located along the body, usually given as six in number. The points are personified by gods and can be released through the proper exercises.
- calah — Biblical name of Kalakh.
- calas — Dumplings made with a deep-fried batter of rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour, part of Creole cuisine.
- caleb — a masculine name
- calfs — Alternative plural of calf.
- calid — warm
- calif — California
- calis — a city in SW Colombia.
- calix — a cup; chalice
- calla — any southern African plant of the aroid genus Zantedeschia, esp Z. aethiopica, which has a white funnel-shaped spathe enclosing a yellow spadix
- calli — Irregular plural form of callus.
- calls — Plural form of call.
- calms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calm.
- calmy — tranquil
- calpe — Rock of Gibraltar
- calva — The calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull.
- calve — When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf.
- calyx — the sepals of a flower collectively, forming the outer floral envelope that protects the developing flower bud
- cam-6 — Software for running cellular automata. CAM-6 has been implemented in hardware as CAM-PC.
- camal — (tool) CAMbridge ALgebra system. A symbolic mathematics system used in Celestial Mechanics and General Relativity. CAMAL was implemented in BCPL on Titan.
- caman — the wooden stick used to hit the ball
- camas — any of several plants of the genus Camassia, of the lily family, especially C. quamash, of western North America, having long clusters of blue to white flowers and edible bulbs.
- camb. — Cambridge
- cambs — Cambridgeshire