8-letter words starting with can
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- canadian — Canadian means belonging or relating to Canada, or to its people or culture.
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaille — the masses; mob; rabble
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canalize — to provide with or convert into a canal or canals
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canastas — Plural form of canasta.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canceled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- cancelli — strips that form a latticework
- cancered — affected by cancer
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candelas — Plural form of candela.
- candidal — relating to candida
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- candyass — a timid or cowardly person; sissy.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- candyman — a drug-dealer, esp one who targets young people
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- canicula — Sirius, the Dog Star
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- caninity — the quality or state of being canine
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canities — greyness or whiteness of hair
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannabin — a greenish-black poisonous resin obtained from the Indian hemp plant
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- cannibal — Cannibals are people who eat the flesh of other human beings.
- cannikin — a small can, esp one used as a drinking vessel
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
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