10-letter words starting with ca
- cannoneers — Plural form of cannoneer.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- canola oil — rapeseed oil
- canon city — a town in central Colorado.
- canonesses — Plural form of canoness.
- canonicals — the vestments worn by clergy when officiating
- canonicate — the office or rank of a canon; canonry
- canonicity — the fact or quality of being canonical
- canonising — Present participle of canonise.
- canonistic — relating to or belonging to a canonist
- canonizing — Present participle of canonize.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- canophilia — the love of dogs
- canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
- cantabrian — of, relating to or from the province of Cantabria
- cantalever — any rigid structural member projecting from a vertical support, especially one in which the projection is great in relation to the depth, so that the upper part is in tension and the lower part in compression.
- cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
- cantatrice — a female singer, esp a professional soloist
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- cantilenas — Plural form of cantilena.
- cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
- cantillate — to chant (passages of the Hebrew Scriptures) according to the traditional Jewish melody
- cantonized — canton (def 7).
- cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
- cantor set — the set obtained from the closed interval from 0 to 1 by removing the middle third from the interval, then the middle third from each of the two remaining sets, and continuing the process indefinitely.
- canvasback — a North American diving duck, Aythyra valisineria, the male of which has a white body and reddish-brown head
- canvaslike — resembling canvas
- canvassers — Plural form of canvasser.
- canvassing — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- canzonetta — a short cheerful or lively song, typically of the 16th to 18th centuries
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- cap sleeve — a very short sleeve on a woman's dress, blouse, etc., fashioned by lengthening only the outer shoulder area of the garment to form a caplike extension
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capablanca — José Raúl (xoˈse raˈul), called Capa or the Chess Machine 1888–1942, Cuban chess player; world champion 1921–27
- capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
- capacitate — to make legally competent
- capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
- capacitive — of electrical capacitance
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa