7-letter words containing ca
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- caboose — On a freight train, a caboose is a small car, usually at the rear, in which the crew travels.
- cabover — of or denoting a truck or lorry in which the cab is over the engine
- cabrera — Manuel Estrada [Spanish mahn-wel es-trah-th ah] /Spanish mɑnˈwɛl ɛsˈtrɑ ðɑ/ (Show IPA), Estrada Cabrera, Manuel.
- cabrini — Saint Frances Xavier(1850-1917); U.S. nun, born in Italy: first U.S. citizen canonized: her day is Dec. 22: called Mother Cabrini
- cabrito — the flesh of a young goat, used as food
- cacaine — (archaic, chemistry) The essential principle of cacao, now called theobromine.
- caccini — Giulio [joo-lyaw] /ˈdʒu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), c1546–1618, Italian singer and composer.
- cáceres — a city in W Spain: held by the Moors (1142–1229). Pop: 87 088 (2003 est)
- cachaca — a white Brazilian rum made from sugar cane
- cachets — Plural form of cachet.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
- caching — cache
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- cacique — a Native American chief in a Spanish-speaking region
- cackled — Simple past tense and past participle of cackle.
- cackler — A person or creature that cackles.
- cackles — to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
- cacodyl — an oily poisonous liquid with a strong garlic smell; tetramethyldiarsine. Formula: [(CH3)2As]2
- cacoepy — bad or mistaken pronunciation
- cacolet — a seat or bed fitted to a mule for carrying the sick or wounded
- caconym — an erroneous name, esp in taxonomic classification
- cactoid — resembling a cactus
- cacumen — an apex
- cad/cam — design and manufacturing by means of a computer system, as in the creation of complex wiring diagrams, the design of coordinated machine parts, etc.
- cadance — Misspelling of cadence.
- cadaver — A cadaver is a dead body.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- caddice — caddis1
- caddied — Golf. a person hired to carry a player's clubs, find the ball, etc.
- caddies — Plural form of caddie.
- caddish — like or characteristic of a cad; ungentlemanly
- caddoan — a family of Native American languages, including Pawnee, formerly spoken in a wide area of the Midwest, and probably distantly related to Siouan
- cadelle — a widely distributed beetle, Tenebroides mauritanicus, that feeds on flour, grain, and other stored foods, as well as on other insects: family Trogositidae
- cadence — The cadence of someone's voice is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak.
- cadency — the line of descent from a younger member of a family
- cadenza — In classical music, a cadenza is a long and difficult solo passage in a piece for soloist and orchestra.
- cadette — a member of the division of the Girl Scouts for girls twelve to fourteen years of age
- cadgers — Plural form of cadger.
- cadging — Present participle of cadge.
- cadmean — of or like Cadmus
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- cadrans — an instrument which measures the angles of gems and is used during the cutting process
- caducei — Plural form of caduceus.
- caedmon — fl. a.d. c670, Anglo-Saxon religious poet.
- caelian — the southeasternmost of the Seven Hills of Rome
- caesars — Plural form of caesar.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line