5-letter words starting with c
- cates — choice dainty food; delicacies
- cath- — cata-
- catho — a member of the Catholic Church
- cathy — a feminine name
- catia — (tool, product) A CAD/CAM system produced by Dassault Systemes and sold by IBM. CATIA is used heavily in the car and aerospace industries. It runs on various Unix platforms and Windows NT.
- catio — An outdoor enclosure for cats.
- catty — If someone, especially a woman or girl, is being catty, they are being unpleasant and unkind.
- cauca — a river in W Colombia, rising in the northwest and flowing north to the Magdalena River. Length: about 1350 km (840 miles)
- cauda — the area behind the anus of an animal; tail
- caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
- cauls — a form or plate for pressing a veneer or veneers being glued to a backing or to each other.
- cauri — a monetary unit of Guinea, the 100th part of a syli.
- causa — a reason or cause
- cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- cavan — a county of N Republic of Ireland: hilly, with many small lakes and bogs. County town: Cavan. Pop: 56 546 (2002). Area: 1890 sq km (730 sq miles)
- caved — Past participle of cave.
- cavel — a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
- caver — A caver is someone who goes into underground caves as a sport.
- caves — Plural form of cave.
- cavie — a hen coop
- cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
- cavin — (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
- cavum — (anatomy) A cavity.
- cavus — (geology) In planetary geology, it is used to refer to irregular steep-sided depressions that do not seem to be impact craters.
- cawed — Simple past tense and past participle of caw.
- caxon — a wig
- cayce — a town in central South Carolina.
- cayes — a seaport on the SW coast of Haiti.
- cayey — a city in central Puerto Rico.
- cbing — the operating of a CB radio.
- cc'ed — to send a duplicate of a document, email, or the like to: I always cc my boss when I write a memo to my staff.
- ccalc — A symbolic mathematics system for MS-DOS, available from Simtel.
- ccanz — Council of Churches in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- ccirn — Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks.
- ccitt — Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993.
- cd-rw — A CD-RW is a CD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another CD or from the Internet. CD-RW is an abbreviation for 'compact disc rewritable'.
- ceara — a state of NE Brazil: sandy coastal plain, rising to a high plateau. Capital: Fortaleza. Pop: 7 654 535 (2002). Area: 150 630 sq km (58 746 sq miles)
- cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- cebid — any member of the Cebidae, a family of New World monkeys
- cecal — a cul-de-sac, especially that in which the large intestine begins.
- cechy — Bohemia2
- cecil — Lord David. 1902–86, English literary critic and biographer
- cecum — the pouch that is the beginning of the large intestine
- cedar — A cedar or a cedar tree is a large evergreen tree with wide branches and small thin leaves called needles.
- ceded — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceder — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- cedes — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceiba — any bombacaceous tropical tree of the genus Ceiba, such as the silk-cotton tree
- ceili — A social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
- ceils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ceil.