7-letter words starting with c
- candids — Plural form of candid.
- candied — Food such as candied fruit has been covered with sugar or has been cooked in sugar syrup.
- candies — Plural form of candy.
- candiot — of or relating to Candia (Iráklion) or Crete; Cretan
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- candled — Simple past tense and past participle of candle.
- candler — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candles — Plural form of candle.
- candock — a yellow water lily
- candour — Candour is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
- cane it — to do something with great power, force, or speed or consume something such as alcohol in large quantities
- canella — the fragrant cinnamon-like inner bark of a West Indian tree, Canella winterana (family Canellaceae) used as a spice and in medicine
- canetti — Elias. 1905–94, British novelist and writer, born in Bulgaria, who usually wrote in German. His works include the novel Auto da Fé (1935). Nobel prize for literature 1981
- canikin — a small can or drinking cup.
- canines — of or like a dog; relating to or characteristic of dogs: canine loyalty.
- canings — Plural form of caning.
- cankers — Plural form of canker.
- cankery — having a canker or cankers
- cankles — Plural form of cankle.
- cannach — any of various bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum; cotton grass
- cannels — an oily, compact coal, burning readily and brightly.
- canners — Plural form of canner.
- cannery — A cannery is a factory where food is canned.
- cannier — careful; cautious; prudent: a canny reply.
- cannily — in a canny manner
- canning — the process or business of sealing food in cans or tins to preserve it
- cannock — a town in W central England, in S Staffordshire: Cannock Chase (a public area of heathland, once a royal preserve) is just to the east. Pop: 65 022 (2001)
- cannoli — a Sicilian pudding of pasta shells filled with sweetened ricotta
- cannons — Plural form of cannon.
- cannula — a narrow tube for insertion into a bodily cavity, as for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
- canoing — Misspelling of canoeing.
- canolas — Plural form of canola.
- canonic — canonical
- canonry — the office, benefice, or status of a canon
- canopic — pertaining to Canopus.
- canopus — the brightest star in the constellation Carina and the second brightest star in the sky. Visual magnitude: -0.7; spectral type: F0II; distance: 313 light years
- canossa — a ruined castle in N Italy, in Emilia near Reggio nell'Emilia: scene of the penance done by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV before Pope Gregory VII
- cantab. — Cantabrigiensis
- cantala — a tropical American plant, Agave cantala, similar to the century plant: family Agavaceae (agaves)
- cantata — A cantata is a fairly short musical work for singers and instruments.
- cantate — the 98th psalm sung as a non-metrical hymn
- canteen — A canteen is a place in a factory, shop, or college where meals are served to the people who work or study there.
- canters — Plural form of canter.
- canthus — the inner or outer corner or angle of the eye, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids
- cantica — part of an ancient Roman drama chanted or sung and accompanied by music.
- cantico — to dance as part of an act of worship
- cantily — In a canty manner.
- cantina — a bar or wine shop, esp in a Spanish-speaking country
- cantine — Alternative form of canteen.
- canting — insincere; hypocritical