9-letter words starting with can
- can't win — If you say that someone can't win in a particular situation, you mean that they are certain to fail or to suffer whatever they do.
- canaanite — a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the land of Canaan before the Israelite conquest
- canadiens — Alternative spelling of Canadiens.
- canal ray — a stream of positive ions produced in a discharge tube by allowing them to pass through holes in the cathode
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- canalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canalize.
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- canberran — a native or inhabitant of Canberra
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- canceleer — (of a hawk) to turn in flight when a stoop fails, in order to re-attempt it
- canceling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancelled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- canceller — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- cancerate — to become cancerous
- cancerian — a person born under the sign of Cancer, usually between June 21 and July 22.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- candlelit — A candlelit room or table is lit by the light of candles.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candlepin — a bowling pin, as used in skittles, tenpin bowling, candlepins, etc
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candy-ass — a timid or cowardly person; wimp
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- cane gall — a disease of blackberries, characterized by rough, warty outgrowths on the canes, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium rubi.
- cane reed — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations
- canebrake — a thicket of canes
- canebreak — Alternative spelling of canebrake.
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canescent — white or greyish due to the presence of numerous short white hairs
- canicular — of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising
- canistels — Plural form of canistel.
- canisters — Plural form of canister.
- cankering — a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
- cankerous — having cankers
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- canneries — Plural form of cannery.
- cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
- cannikins — Plural form of cannikin.
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