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5-letter words starting with c

  • caiusSaint, 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
  • camel — A camel is a large animal that lives in deserts and is used for carrying goods and people. Camels have long necks and one or two lumps on their backs called humps.
  • cameo — A cameo is a short description or piece of acting which expresses cleverly and neatly the nature of a situation, event, or person's character.
  • cames — a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
  • camil — Computer Assisted/Managed Instructional Language. A language used for CAI at Lowry AFB, CO.
  • camis — a light robe
  • campi — (nonstandard) Irregular plural form of campus.
  • campo — level or undulating savanna country, esp in the uplands of Brazil
  • camps — Plural form of camp.
  • campy — Campy means the same as camp.
  • camra — Campaign for Real Ale
  • camus — Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957
  • can't — Can't is the usual spoken form of 'cannot'.
  • canad — Canadian
  • canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
  • canby — Henry Seidel [sahyd-l] /ˈsaɪd l/ (Show IPA), 1878–1961, U.S. author and critic.
  • candy — Candy is sweet foods such as toffees or chocolate.
  • canea — the chief port of Crete, on the NW coast. Pop: 55 838 (2001)
  • caned — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
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