6-letter words starting with c
- caplin — capelin.
- capone — Alphonse, called Al. 1899–1947, US gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
- capons — Plural form of capon.
- capote — a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood
- capped — a capital letter.
- capper — a person or device that caps something or makes caps
- capric — (of a type of acid) smelling of goats
- caprid — a member of the goat family
- capris — an island in W Italy, in the Bay of Naples: grottoes; resort. 5½ sq. mi. (14 sq. km).
- capsid — any heteropterous bug of the family Miridae (formerly Capsidae), most of which feed on plant tissues, causing damage to crops
- captan — a fungicide produced from mercaptan
- captor — You can refer to the person who has captured a person or animal as their captor.
- carack — a merchant vessel having various rigs, used especially by Mediterranean countries in the 15th and 16th centuries; galleon.
- caract — a sign or symbol
- carafe — A carafe is a glass container in which you serve water or wine.
- carapa — a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, of the mahogany family.
- carats — Plural form of carat.
- carbo- — carbon
- carbon — Carbon is a chemical element that diamonds and coal are made up of.
- carbos — carbohydrate.
- carboy — a large glass or plastic bottle, usually protected by a basket or box, used for containing corrosive liquids such as acids
- carcas — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- carcel — a former French unit of light equal to about 9.74 candelas
- carded — a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- carder — a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- cardi- — cardio-
- cardia — a lower oesophageal sphincter
- cardie — A cardie is the same as a cardigan.
- cardin — Pierre (pjɛr). born 1922, French couturier, noted esp for his collections for men
- cardio — Cardiovascular; pertaining to the health of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
- cardon — a tall cactus, Pachycereus pringlei, native to Mexico
- cardus — Sir Neville. 1889–1975, British music critic and cricket writer
- careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- career — A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
- carême — the forty days of Lent
- carene — (religion, obsolete) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
- carers — Plural form of carer.
- caress — If you caress someone, you stroke them gently and affectionately.
- carets — Plural form of caret.
- carfax — a place where principal roads or streets intersect, esp a place in a town where four roads meet
- carful — the maximum number of people a car will hold
- cargoe — Obsolete spelling of cargo.
- cargos — Plural form of cargo.
- carhop — a waiter or waitress at a drive-in restaurant
- carian — a native or inhabitant of Caria.
- caribe — a piranha
- caried — affected by caries
- caries — Caries is decay in teeth.
- carina — a keel-like part or ridge, as in the breastbone of birds or the fused lower petals of a leguminous flower
- carine — (obsolete) A keel.