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 for a state, as of emotion.

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.

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

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

Noun : An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

caper

Noun : A playful leap or jump.

Noun : A jump while dancing.

Noun : A prank or practical joke.

cater

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

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

Noun : (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

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

Noun : (nonstandard) A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩.

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.

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 unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.

Noun : (historical) Any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed.

Noun : A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats.

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

Noun : The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.

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 : (golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

Verb : (intransitive, golf) To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

Noun : A lightweight wheeled cart, often used to bring home groceries.

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 : (largely historical) 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.

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 : The 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 an Amerindian people who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.

Noun : Any of the languages of these people.

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 : A city, the county seat of Grady County, Georgia.

canid

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

carer

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

carne

Noun : A surname.

camus

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Albert Camus, French author and philosopher

Noun : Obsolete form of camis. [(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) 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 place in England, United Kingdom; Any of several place names in south-west England.

Noun : An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.

Noun : A surname from Irish, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha.

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

cager

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

Noun : (dated) A basketball player.

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

calix

Noun : A surname.

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.

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.

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

Noun : A telephone conversation; a phone call.

Noun : An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

Noun : A short visit, usually for social purposes.

carse

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

Noun : A surname.

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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