5 Letter Words That Start With CA

catch

Noun : (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.

Noun : (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.

Noun : (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.

cause

Noun : (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

Noun : (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason.

Noun : (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.

cache

Noun : A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.

Noun : (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

Noun : (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

canon

Noun : A generally accepted principle; a rule.

Noun : a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.

Noun : A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

canal

Noun : An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

Noun : (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.

Noun : (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

carry

Verb : (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

Verb : (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

Verb : (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

cabal

Noun : A secret political clique or faction.

Noun : (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.

Noun : A secret plot.

cadre

Noun : A frame or framework.

Noun : (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

Noun : (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

candy

Noun : (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Noun : (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Noun : (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

cavil

Verb : (intransitive) To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.

Noun : A petty or trivial objection or criticism.

cable

Noun : (material) A long object used to make a physical connection.

Noun : A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

Noun : An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.

caper

Noun : A playful leap or jump.

Noun : A jump while dancing.

Noun : A prank or practical joke.

cater

Verb : To provide

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.

cameo

Noun : A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.

Noun : A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.

Verb : To appear in a cameo role.

carot

calic

caste

Noun : Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

Noun : A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

Noun : (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

cacao

Noun : A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

Noun : This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

cabin

Noun : (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

Noun : (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.

Noun : A private room on a ship.

cairn

Noun : A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

Noun : A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

Noun : A cairn terrier.

caret

Noun : A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.

Noun : An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.

Noun : (graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

cagey

Adjective : Wary, careful, shrewd.

Adjective : Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.

camry

cadge

Noun : (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

Verb : (Tyneside) To beg.

Verb : (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.

carve

Verb : (archaic) To cut.

Verb : To cut meat in order to serve it.

Verb : To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

cargo

Noun : Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.

Noun : (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.

Noun : A surname.

canny

Adjective : Careful, prudent, cautious.

Adjective : Knowing, shrewd, astute.

Adjective : Frugal, thrifty.

camel

Noun : A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

Noun : A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).

Noun : Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

canoe

Noun : A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

Noun : (slang) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.

Noun : (gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.

carat

Noun : A metric unit of weight equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls .

Noun : (historical) Any of several small units of weight used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.

Noun : A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.

carol

Noun : (historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.

Noun : A ballad or song of joy.

Noun : (specifically) A (usually traditional) religious or secular song sung at Christmastime.

canto

Noun : One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.

Noun : (music) The treble or leading melody.

Noun : (music) The designated division of a song.

cards

Noun : card games

Noun : (sports) Initialism of St. Louis Cardinals.

calyx

Noun : (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

Noun : (zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.

Noun : A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.

carob

Noun : An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.

Noun : The fruit of that tree.

Noun : A sweet chocolate-like confection made with the pulp of the fruit.

caddy

Noun : (also attributively) A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.

Noun : (by extension)

Noun : A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.

carom

Noun : (countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

Noun : (uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).

cadet

Noun : A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.

Noun : (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.

Noun : (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

carte

Noun : A bill of fare; a menu.

Noun : (dated) A visiting card.

Noun : (historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).

catty

Adjective : (informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset, particularly among women.

Adjective : (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.

Noun : A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.

caput

Noun : (anatomy) The head.

Noun : (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.

Noun : The top or superior part of a thing.

capon

Noun : A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

Verb : (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

Noun : A surname.

canna

Noun : Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

Noun : (historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

Noun : An island in the Small Isles, Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, joined to the island of Sanday by a bridge.

calve

Verb : (intransitive) to give birth to a calf

Verb : (intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf

Verb : (transitive) to give birth to (a calf)

caulk

Noun : Caulking.

Noun : A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.

Verb : (nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.

cabot

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : John Cabot, Italian navigator and explorer

capri

Noun : An island in the Bay of Naples; part of Campania.

Noun : Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light dry white wine.

Noun : (colour) A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.

calla

Noun : A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.

Noun : A calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica).

cajun

Noun : A member of the ethnic group descending from Acadia, primarily French-speaking Catholic and living in Southern Louisiana and Maine.

Noun : (ethnic slur, dated) Any uneducated poor Francophone in French Louisiana.

Adjective : Relating to the Cajun people or their culture.

campy

Adjective : Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) Short for Campylobacter.

carib

Noun : A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.

Noun : A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Noun : A member of the Kalinago people of the Lesser Antilles, an Arawakan people who took heavy cultural influence from the mainland Caribs and so were formerly known as Island Caribs.

capex

Noun : (business, finance) Abbreviation of capital expense. [(economics) Expenses incurred by a company to maintain a long-term asset.]

Noun : (business, finance) Abbreviation of capital expenditure. [Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.]

Noun : Alternative form of CAPEX

cairo

Noun : The capital city of Egypt.

Noun : A governorate of Egypt, containing the capital city.

Noun : Several places in the United States:

canid

Noun : Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).

carer

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

carne

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A hamlet on Gillan Creek in St Anthony-in-Meneage parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7724).

Noun : A hamlet and nearby beach in Veryan parish, on the south coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9138).

camus

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Albert Camus, French author and philosopher

Noun : Obsolete form of camis. (clothing) [(obsolete) A light, loose dress or robe.]

caleb

Noun : (biblical) Caleb the son of Jephunneh, an Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew first used by Puritans.

canis

Noun : a genus of the Caninae which includes multiple extant species, such as wolves, dogs, coyotes, and golden jackals.

Noun : a genus which includes dogs, wolves and jackals.

capra

Noun : goat

Noun : united states film maker (1897-1991

cacti

Noun : (botany) Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.

Noun : Any succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem bearing spines but no leaves, such as euphorbs.

Adjective : (Australia, New Zealand, slang, dated) Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.

caber

Noun : A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.

campo

Noun : (US, slang) A police officer assigned to a university campus.

Noun : A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

causa

Noun : a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remed

casey

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A female given name transferred from the surname.

caner

Noun : One who canes.

Noun : (slang) A recreational drug user.

carey

Noun : A placename

Noun : A place in England, United Kingdom; Any of several place names in south-west England.

Noun : (countable) A surname.

calor

cakes

Noun : A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Noun : A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

Noun : A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

carel

Noun : A surname from French.

cager

Noun : (mining) A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.

Noun : (dated everywhere, currently Philippines) A basketball player.

Noun : (cycling, derogatory) A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.

calix

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Dated form of calyx. [(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.]

caffe

Noun : Alternative spelling of caffè (“Italian café”). [An Italian café.]

cakey

Adjective : Alternative spelling of caky [Resembling cake in texture.]

carta

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Short for Magna Carta. [(historical) A charter granted by King John to the barons at Runnymede in 1215, which is one of the bases of English constitutional tradition; a physical copy of this charter, or a later version.]

carlo

Noun : A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles

carew

Noun : A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN045038).

Noun : An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States.

Noun : A habitational surname from Welsh.

caine

Noun : A surname.

ca-ca

Verb : have a bowel movemen

camas

Noun : Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia.

Noun : A town in Clark County, Washington, United States

Noun : A town near Seville, Spain

cardi

Noun : An individual from Cardiganshire.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

Noun : A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.

carpe

calif

Noun : Alternative spelling of caliph [The political leader of the Muslim world; the successor of the prophet Muhammad's political authority.]

carpi

Noun : (anatomy) The group of bones that make up the wrist.

carex

Noun : Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

carme

Noun : (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.

cases

Noun : An actual event, situation, or fact.

Noun : (now rare) A given condition or state.

Noun : A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.

capet

Noun : king of france elected in 987 and founding the capetian dynasty (940-996

cabby

Noun : (informal) A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.

calle

calls

Verb : To use one's voice.

Verb : (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.

Verb : (intransitive) To cry or shout.

carse

Noun : (Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (countable) An area of fertile, low-lying (typically alluvial) land occupying certain Scottish river valleys, such as that of the River Forth.

carma

carny

Noun : (informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).

Noun : (uncountable) The jargon used by carnival workers.

Noun : (informal, countable) A carnival.

cagle

Noun : A surname from German.

caned

Adjective : (UK, slang) intoxicated by alcohol or drugs

cason

Noun : A surname from Old English.

Noun : A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

capes

Noun : (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

Noun : A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders.

Noun : (slang) A superhero.

cajon

Noun : a steep-sided canyo

carbo

Noun : (informal) carbohydrate

Noun : A surname.

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