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7-letter words starting with c

  • 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
  • caetano — Marcello (marˈselu). 1906–80, prime minister of Portugal from 1968 until he was replaced by an army coup in 1974
  • caffein — a white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid, C 8 H 10 N 4 O 2 , usually derived from coffee or tea: used in medicine chiefly as a nervous system stimulant.
  • caffila — a caravan train
  • cafileh — Alternative form of cafila.
  • caftans — Plural form of caftan.
  • caganer — a figure of a squatting defecating person, a traditional character in Catalan Christmas crèche scenes
  • cageful — an amount which fills a cage to capacity
  • cagmags — Plural form of cagmag.
  • cagoule — a lightweight usually knee-length type of anorak
  • cahokia — a city in SW Illinois.
  • cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
  • caimans — Plural form of caiman.
  • cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
  • cainite — a member of a Gnostic sect that exalted Cain and regarded the God of the Old Testament as responsible for evil.
  • cairene — a person born or living in Cairo, Egypt
  • cairned — marked by a cairn
  • caisson — a watertight chamber open at the bottom and containing air under pressure, used to carry out construction work under water
  • caitiff — a cowardly or base person
  • caitive — a captive
  • caitlin — a female given name, Irish form of Cathleen, Kathleen.
  • cajeput — cajuput
  • cajoled — Persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery.
  • cajoler — A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
  • cajoles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cajole.
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