5-letter words containing ca
- nazca — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.
- nicad — nickel-cadmium battery.
- nicam — near-instantaneous companding system: a technique for coding audio signals into digital form
- nicar — Nicaragua
- ocala — a city in central Florida.
- occam — William of, died 1349? English scholastic philosopher.
- occas — occasion
- orcas — Plural form of orca.
- oscan — one of an ancient people of south-central Italy.
- oscar — 1829–1907, king of Sweden 1872–1907; king of Norway 1872–1905.
- p-cad — (application) A CAE system marketed by CADAM, an IBM company.
- parca — an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny. Compare Parcae.
- pbcak — PEBCAK
- pecan — a tall hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, cultivated for its oval, smooth-shelled, edible nuts: the state tree of Texas.
- phoca — a seal
- pical — of or relating to pica
- plica — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- pocal — PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
- ponca — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- ppaca — The PPACA is a 2010 federal law that reformed some public health insurance programs and parts of the private health insurance industry in the U.S.
- púcán — traditional Connemara open sailing boat
- recap — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- rspca — Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- scada — Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
- scads — any carangid fish of the genus Decapterus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical shore waters.
- scaff — food
- scail — a scattering or dispersion
- scald — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scall — dandruff.
- scalp — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scaly — covered with or abounding in scales or scale.
- scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scanf — The C library routine that reads data from the standard input stream stdin into the locations given by each entry in its argument list. The first argument is a format string which controls interpretation of the input and each subsequent argument points to a variable with a type that corresponds to a type specifier in the format-string.
- scant — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scape — Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
- scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarf — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scarp — a line of cliffs formed by the faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust; an escarpment.
- scart — to scratch or scrape
- scary — causing fright or alarm.
- scatt — (in the Shetland and Orkney Islands) a crown tax, as for use of common lands.
- scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- secam — séquentiel couleur à mémoire: a colour-television broadcasting system used in France, the former Soviet Union, and some other countries
- spica — spike2 .
- tacan — an electronic ultrahigh-frequency navigation system for aircraft which gives a continuous indication of bearing and distance from a transmitting station
- talca — a city in central Chile.
- theca — a case or receptacle.
- tical — a former silver coin and monetary unit of Siam, equal to 100 satang: replaced in 1928 by the baht.
- ticca — (of a thing or the services of a person) having been acquired for temporary use in exchange for payment; hired