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8-letter words starting with ca

  • calzaghe — Joe. born 1972, Welsh boxer: won all 46 of his professional fights (1993–2008); world champion in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions
  • calzones — Plural form of calzone.
  • cam gear — a gear not centered on the shaft, used where discontinuous action is required
  • cam ranh — a port in SE Vietnam: large natural harbour, used at times as a naval base by French, Japanese, US, and Russian forces successively. Pop: 147 000 (2006 est)
  • cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
  • camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
  • camassia — Any of the genus Camassia of flowering plants, the camases.
  • cambered — Having camber.
  • cambiata — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.
  • cambists — Plural form of cambist.
  • cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
  • cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
  • cambogia — gamboge (def 1).
  • camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
  • cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
  • cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
  • cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
  • cameleer — a camel-driver
  • cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
  • camelids — Plural form of camelid.
  • camelina — The plant Camelina sativa, sometimes cultivated for oilseed.
  • cameline — a material made from camel hair
  • camelish — similar to a camel
  • camellia — A camellia is a large bush that has shiny leaves and large white, pink, or red flowers similar to a rose.
  • cameloid — a member of the camel family
  • camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
  • cameltoe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
  • cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
  • cameroun — Cameroon
  • camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
  • camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
  • camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
  • camomile — Camomile is a scented plant with flowers like small daisies. The flowers can be used to make herbal tea.
  • camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
  • camp car — a railroad car used as a dormitory for construction and maintenance workers.
  • camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
  • camp pie — tinned meat
  • campagna — a low-lying plain surrounding Rome, Italy: once fertile, it deteriorated to malarial marshes; but has since been reclaimed. Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
  • campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
  • campaign — A campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change.
  • campania — a region of SW Italy: includes the islands of Capri and Ischia. Chief town: Naples. Pop: 5 725 098 (2003 est). Area: 13 595 sq km (5248 sq miles)
  • campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
  • campeche — a state of SE Mexico, on the SW of the Yucatán peninsula: forestry and fishing. Capital: Campeche. Pop: 205 000 (2005 est). Area: 56 114 sq km (21 666 sq miles)
  • campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
  • camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
  • camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
  • camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
  • camphire — henna
  • camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
  • campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
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