6-letter words starting with c
- cawing — harsh cries
- cawker — a metal projection on a horse's shoe which prevents slipping
- cawley — Evonne (née Goolagong). born 1951, Australian tennis player: winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles including Wimbledon (1971,1980) and the Australian Open (1974–76, 1977 (December))
- caxias — a city in NE Brazil.
- caxton — a book printed by William Caxton
- cayley — Arthur. 1821–93, British mathematician, who invented matrices
- cayman — any tropical American crocodilian of the genus Caiman and related genera, similar to alligators but with a more heavily armoured belly: family Alligatoridae (alligators, etc)
- cayuga — a member of a Native American people (one of the Iroquois peoples) formerly living around Cayuga Lake
- cayuse — a small Native American pony used by cowboys
- cbasic — A BASIC compiler by Gordon Eubanks, now at Symantec. It evolved from/into EBASIC.
- cc'ing — 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.
- ccmail — It's written cc:mail.
- cd-rom — A CD-ROM is a CD on which a very large amount of information can be stored and then read using a computer. CD-ROM is an abbreviation for 'compact disc read-only memory'.
- ceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- ceases — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- cecile — a feminine name
- cecils — fried meatballs
- cecily — a feminine name
- cecity — a rare word for blindness
- cedant — The cedant is the person or company that cedes business to another person or company.
- cedarn — of or relating to cedar trees
- cedars — Plural form of cedar.
- cedary — resembling a cedar tree or its wood
- cedent — The person who cedes a personal obligation to another.
- ceding — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- cedric — a masculine name
- cedula — a form of identification, usually a card, in Spanish-speaking countries
- ceefax — the BBC teletext service, switched off in October 2012
- ceiled — to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- ceiler — a canopy or tapestry covering a bed or wall
- celaya — a city in central Mexico, in Guanajuato state: market town, famous for its sweetmeats; textile-manufacturing. Pop: 727 000 (2005 est)
- celebs — Plural form of celeb.
- celery — Celery is a vegetable with long pale green stalks. It is eaten raw in salads.
- celiac — of or in the abdominal cavity
- celine — Louis-Ferdinand (lwifɛrdinɑ̃), real name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches. 1894–1961, French novelist and physician; became famous with his controversial first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
- cellar — A cellar is a room underneath a building, which is often used for storing things in.
- cellas — (language) CELLular ASsemblies. A concurrent block-structured language.
- celled — containing or divided into compartments or cells
- cellos — Plural form of cello.
- celtic — If you describe something as Celtic, you mean that it is connected with the people and the culture of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and some other areas such as Brittany.
- celure — an ornamented canopy, as for a bed or dais.
- cembra — a large Swiss pine which yields nuts (cembra nuts)
- cement — Cement is a grey powder which is mixed with sand and water in order to make concrete.
- cendal — a silk fabric in use during the Middle Ages.
- cendre — a particular shade of ash-blond
- cenizo — chamiso.
- cenote — (esp in the Yucatán peninsula) a natural well formed by the collapse of an overlying limestone crust: often used as a sacrificial site by the Mayas
- censed — Simple past tense and past participle of cense.
- censer — a container for burning incense, esp one swung at religious ceremonies
- censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.