6 Letter Words That Start With CA

candid

Adjective : Straightforward, open and sincere.

Adjective : Impartial and free from prejudice.

Adjective : Not posed or rehearsed.

candor

Noun : The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.

Noun : Impartiality.

Noun : (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity.

cackle

Noun : A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.

Noun : The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

Verb : (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

callow

Adjective : (zoology) (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

Adjective : (zoology) (ornithology) Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

Adjective : (zoology) (by extension) In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.

caress

Verb : (transitive) To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.

Noun : An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.

Noun : A gentle stroking or rubbing.

carnal

Adjective : Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.

Adjective : Of or relating to the body or flesh.

Adjective : Worldly or earthly; temporal.

careen

Verb : (intransitive) To lurch or sway violently from side to side.

Verb : (intransitive, chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

Verb : (intransitive, chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.

canopy

Noun : The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.

Noun : A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

Noun : Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.

casual

Adjective : (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.

Adjective : (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.

Adjective : Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

cajole

Verb : (ambitransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.

Noun : The act of cajoling

canted

Adjective : Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.

Adjective : Having angles; angled.

cavity

Noun : (dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

Noun : A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.

Noun : (anatomy) A hollow area within the body.

caucus

Noun : A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.

Noun : A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

Noun : A political interest group by members of a legislative body.

caveat

Noun : A warning.

Noun : A qualification or exemption.

Noun : (law) A formal objection.

caring

Adjective : (of a person) Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

Noun : The act of one who cares.

cachet

Noun : (figurative) A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association.

Noun : (philately) A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.

Noun : (medicine) A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.

canary

Noun : A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.

Noun : Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

Noun : A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

cavern

Noun : A large cave.

Noun : An underground chamber.

Noun : A large, dark place or space.

canker

Noun : Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.

Noun : A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.

Verb : (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

cavort

Verb : (intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

Verb : (informal) To engage in extravagant pursuits, especially of a sexual nature.

Verb : (originally intransitive, of horses) To prance, frolic, gambol.

cautel

Noun : (obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness

Noun : (Christianity) A traditional caution or written direction about the proper manner of administering the sacraments.

Noun : (obsolete) deceit

castle

Noun : A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.

Noun : (chess) An instance of castling.

Noun : (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.

catgut

Noun : (countable) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.

Noun : (uncountable) The material from which such cords are made.

Noun : (uncountable) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

carrot

Noun : A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.

Noun : A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

Noun : (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.

callid

Adjective : (archaic) cunning or shrewd; crafty.

cantor

Noun : singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony

Noun : (Judaism) A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan

Noun : A surname.

capade

Noun : (usually in combination) An adventure.

Noun : (usually in combination, in proper nouns) An exhibition or event, usually for entertainment.

canter

Noun : A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.

Noun : A ride on a horse at such speed.

Verb : (intransitive) To move at such pace.

cavate

Noun : (archaeology) A cliffside dwelling made in the living rock by humans.

caract

Noun : (obsolete) A mark or sign.

Noun : (obsolete) A magical symbol.

caelus

Noun : (Roman mythology) The personification of the sky and heavens. Either the brother-husband or son-and-husband of Terra, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops. He is the Roman counterpart of Uranus.

Noun : (astronomy) A suggested alternate name for the seventh planet Uranus.

canvas

Noun : A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

Noun : (painting) A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.

Noun : (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.

cation

Noun : (physical chemistry) A positively charged ion: one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.

cagily

Verb : In a cagy manner.

cancer

Noun : (medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

Noun : (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

Adjective : (slang) Extremely unpleasant and annoying.

cartel

Noun : (economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.

Noun : (historical, politics) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.

Noun : (historical, law) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.

camber

Noun : A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.

Noun : The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.

Noun : (automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.

canine

Adjective : Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.

Adjective : Dog-like.

Noun : Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.

canyon

Noun : A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

Verb : (intransitive) Of water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Contra Costa County and Alameda County, California, United States.

carven

Adjective : Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.

canard

Noun : A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.

Noun : (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.

Noun : (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.

caster

Noun : A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).

Noun : A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.

Noun : Someone or something that casts.

carafe

Noun : A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.

Noun : A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.

cannon

Noun : A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.

Noun : Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

Noun : (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.

castor

Noun : A container with a perforated cap for sprinkling its contents, especially salt, pepper, etc.

Noun : A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture to allow it to be moved.

Noun : (especially UK) Alternative spelling of caster, especially in its senses

casket

Noun : (Canada, US) A coffin.

Noun : A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

Noun : (British) An urn.

career

Noun : One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously and/or over a long period of time.

Noun : The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field.

Noun : The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.

cave in

Verb : To collapse inward or downward.

Verb : (figurative) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will.

Noun : Misspelling of cave-in. [The act of something collapsing or caving in.]

carnet

Noun : A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.

Noun : An admission pass.

Noun : (law) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article

called

Adjective : Having been called.

cadent

Adjective : Falling.

carped

Noun : Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

Verb : (intransitive) To criticize or complain about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons; to cavil. [(often) with at]

Noun : An instance of, or speech, complaining or criticizing about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons; a cavil.

calefy

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To become warm or hot.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To make warm or hot.

calico

Noun : (textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.

Adjective : Having red, brunette, and blond hair colors, resembling the fur of a calico cat.

Adjective : Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.

carpet

Noun : A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

Noun : (figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

Verb : (transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

canton

Noun : One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.

Noun : A division of a political unit.

Noun : A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.

caliph

Noun : The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of caliph. [The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.]

cashew

Noun : A cashew nut.

Noun : A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

caesar

Noun : A title of Roman emperors.

Noun : An ancient Roman family name, notably that of Julius Caesar.

Noun : An absolute ruler; an autocrat.

cantle

Noun : The raised back of a saddle.

Noun : (Scotland) The top of the head.

Noun : (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

catchy

Adjective : (of a tune or phrase) Instantly appealing and memorable.

Adjective : (dated, chiefly figurative) Tending to catch or ensnare; entangling.

Adjective : Contagious; catching.

capote

Noun : A long coat or cloak with a hood.

Noun : (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.

Noun : (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.

calque

Noun : (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

Verb : (linguistics, translation studies, transitive) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

cannot

Verb : Can not (be unable to).

Verb : Be forbidden or not permitted to

Noun : Something that cannot be done.

casern

Noun : A lodging for soldiers in a garrison town (formerly usually near the rampart); a barracks.

calmly

Verb : In a calm manner; coolly.

cadger

Noun : (sometimes Geordie) A beggar.

Noun : (archaic) A hawker or peddler.

carved

Adjective : Of an object, made by carving.

causes

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.

Verb : (transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.

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

cahoot

Noun : Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion.

Noun : An accomplice, a partner.

Noun : A company or partnership.

cawing

Noun : The act of producing a caw sound.

cafard

Noun : Depression; melancholy.

cantic

Adjective : canting

Adjective : angled

Adjective : oblique, slanting

canapé

Noun : An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.

Noun : A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.

canion

Noun : (historical, often in the plural) One of a pair of fitted tubes of cloth worn in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries below short trunk hose and above stockings to cover the leg in between them, sometimes joined to the hose (sometimes reduced to ornamental rolls terminating the legs of the hose), and sometimes joined to each other as breeches worn under the hose.

Noun : Obsolete form of canyon. [A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.]

cattle

Noun : Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.

Noun : Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.

Noun : (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.

cactus

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.

catnip

Noun : Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless pheromone-based intoxication among certain cats.

Noun : (figurative) Something that causes excitement or interest.

Noun : Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.

carina

Noun : A female given name from Latin occasionally used in English.

Noun : (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Noun : A locality in the Rural City of Mildura, north western Victoria, Australia

carpus

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

caught

Adjective : (cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.

caller

Noun : (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.

Noun : A visitor.

Noun : (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.

carpel

Noun : (botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil: the female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.

casper

Noun : A city, the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.

Noun : A mountain in Wyoming.

Noun : A male given name from Old Persian, of occasional usage, variant of Caspar.

cabala

Noun : Alternative spelling of Kabbalah. [(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.]

Noun : Alternative form of Kabbalah. [(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.]

carney

Noun : A surname from Irish.

Noun : A unisex given name.

Noun : A male given name.

caused

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.

Verb : (transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.

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

cahier

Noun : A roll of sheets of paper put loosely together, especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

Noun : A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.

casita

Noun : (US) A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment.

carden

Noun : A garden grown inside of a car, usually in the dashboard.

Verb : (intransitive) to grow plants in a car.

Noun : A surname.

cambre

Noun : A surname from Anglo-Norman.

Noun : Alternative spelling of cambré. [(ballet) A bending at the waist in any direction.]

Noun : Obsolete form of camber. [A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.]

camply

Verb : In a camp manner.

cazimi

Noun : (astrology) The position of the center of the sun in the sky.

carbon

Noun : (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.

Noun : (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.

Noun : A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.

candle

Noun : A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

Noun : The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.

Verb : (transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.

caudal

Adjective : (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.

Adjective : (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.

Noun : A caudal vertebra.

caviar

Noun : Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.

Noun : (figurative) Something whose flavor is too fine for the vulgar taste.

cassia

Noun : (uncountable) The spice made from the bark of members of the genus Cinnamomum other than true cinnamon (C. verum), when they are distinguished from cinnamon.

Noun : (countable) Such trees themselves, particularly the Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia.

Noun : (countable) Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Cassia.

carpal

Noun : (anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the carpus.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.

catkin

Noun : (botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.

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