Words That Start With CA

cat

Noun : An animal of the family Felidae:

Noun : A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.

Noun : Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.

cast

Verb : (physical) To move, or be moved, away.

Verb : (now somewhat literary) To throw.

Verb : To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

caviat

car

Noun : A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation.

Noun : (dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal

Noun : (dated) A cart.

care

Noun : (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [:Template:SAFESUBST:–Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Noun : Close attention; concern; responsibility.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Worry.

call

Verb : To use one's voice.

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

Verb : (intransitive) To cry or shout.

case

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.

card

Noun : A playing card.

Noun : (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

Noun : A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)

caveat

Noun : A warning.

Noun : A qualification or exemption.

Noun : (law) A formal objection.

capital

Noun : (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).

Noun : (uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.

Noun : (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.

cap

Noun : A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

Noun : A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.

Noun : An academic mortarboard.

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.

cake

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.

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.

can

Verb : (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.

Verb : (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.

Verb : (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.

capricious

Adjective : Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

capacity

Noun : The ability to hold, receive, or absorb

Noun : A measure of such ability; volume

Noun : The maximum amount that can be held

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.

career

Noun : One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.

Noun : General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

Noun : (archaic) Speed.

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

candid

Adjective : Impartial and free from prejudice.

Adjective : Straightforward, open and sincere.

Adjective : Not posed or rehearsed.

catalyst

Noun : (chemistry) A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.

Noun : (figurative) Something that encourages progress or change.

Noun : (literature) An inciting incident that sets the successive conflict into motion.

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.

capture

Noun : An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.

Noun : The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

Noun : Something that has been captured; a captive.

cant

Noun : (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.

Noun : A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.

carrier

Noun : A person or object that carries someone or something else.

Noun : (science fiction, by extension) A starship designed to carry starfighters

Noun : A carrier pigeon.

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.

caucus

Noun : A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent 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.

calendar

Noun : Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

Noun : A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

Noun : A list of planned events.

callous

Adjective : (figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

Adjective : (literal) Having calluses, or relating to calluses.

Noun : Alternative form of callus [A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.]

calm

Adjective : (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Adjective : (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

Adjective : (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

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.

cavalier

Adjective : Not caring enough about something important.

Adjective : High-spirited.

Adjective : Supercilious.

calumny

Noun : (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

Noun : (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.

Verb : (transitive, formal) To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.

canvas

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

Noun : (painting)

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

cathartic

Adjective : Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.

Adjective : That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.

Noun : (medicine) A laxative.

cavil

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

Noun : A petty or trivial objection or criticism.

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.

cancelled

Adjective : No longer planned or scheduled.

Adjective : (of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.

cascade

Noun : A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

Noun : (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

Noun : A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.

cardinal

Adjective : Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

Adjective : (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

Adjective : Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

casual

Adjective : Happening by chance.

Adjective : Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

Adjective : Employed irregularly.

catharsis

Noun : (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).

Noun : Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.

Noun : A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.

canopy

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.

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

carriage

Noun : The act of conveying; carrying.

Noun : Means of conveyance.

Noun : A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power.

cantankerous

Adjective : Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

cancel

Verb : (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.

Verb : (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

Verb : (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

candor

Noun : (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity.

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

Noun : Impartiality.

cart

Noun : A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

Noun : A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

Noun : (Internet) A shopping cart.

category

Noun : A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

Noun : (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

calculus

Noun : (dated, countable) Calculation; computation.

Noun : (countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.

Noun : (uncountable, often definite, the calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.

cavity

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

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

Noun : (engineering, manufacturing) The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.

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.

canceled

Adjective : US standard spelling of cancelled. [No longer planned or scheduled.]

caravan

Noun : A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

Noun : (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

Verb : To travel in a caravan (procession).

caliphate

Noun : A unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph.

carousel

Noun : A merry-go-round (type of ride on rotating platform).

Noun : A continuously revolving device for item delivery.

Noun : The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven.

cane

Noun : A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof

Noun : (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

Noun : (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed

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.

capable

Adjective : Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.

Adjective : (obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.

caprice

Noun : An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.

Noun : A brief romance.

Noun : An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.

capitol

Noun : (US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.

Noun : (historical) Any citadel or complex of buildings similar to the Roman Capitol, particularly Italian and Roman citadels including temples to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

Noun : Any particular capitol

calamity

Noun : An event resulting in great loss.

Noun : The distress that results from some disaster.

calf

Noun : A young cow or bull.

Noun : Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

Noun : A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

caliber

Noun : Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands.

Noun : The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column.

Noun : A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40.

cash

Noun : (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.

Noun : (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

Noun : (uncountable, informal) Money.

catastrophe

Noun : Any large and disastrous event of great significance.

Noun : (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.

Noun : (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.

callow

Adjective : Bald, hairless, bare.

Adjective : Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.

Adjective : (by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.

candidate

Noun : A person who is running in an election.

Noun : A person who is applying for a job.

Noun : A participant in an examination.

canvass

Verb : (transitive, figuratively)

Verb : To thoroughly examine or investigate (something) physically or by discussion; to debate, to gather opinion, to scrutinize.

Verb : (by extension, politics, obsolete except US, Philippines) To scrutinize (the ballot in an election or the votes cast) and reject irregular votes; also, to challenge or dispute (an election result).

cave

Noun : A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

Noun : A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

Noun : A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

caustic

Adjective : Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

Adjective : (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.

Noun : Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

cattle

Noun : Domesticated animals of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc).

Noun : Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.

Noun : (derogatory, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.

carot

caution

Noun : Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.

Noun : A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.

Noun : Security; guaranty; bail.

catholic

Adjective : Universal; all-encompassing.

Adjective : (obsolete) Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.

Adjective : (usually of people and their feelings, tastes, etc.) Embracing all.

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. It may include muzzle appendages.

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

Noun : (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.

castigate

Verb : (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.

Verb : (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.

Verb : (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.

capsule

Noun : (physiology) A membranous envelope.

Noun : (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.

Noun : (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.

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.

Noun : (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.

cataract

Noun : (obsolete) A waterspout.

Noun : A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.

Noun : A flood of water.

careen

Verb : (nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

Verb : (nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.

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

cape

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.

caption

Noun : (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.

Noun : A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

Noun : (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

carnage

Noun : Death and destruction.

Noun : The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.

Noun : (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.

calic

caring

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

Noun : The act of one who cares.

catalogue

Noun : A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.

Noun : A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.

Noun : A list of all the publications in a library; a library catalogue.

capability

Noun : the power or ability to generate an outcome

Noun : (computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.

capitulate

Verb : (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

casino

Noun : A public building or room for gambling.

Noun : (obsolete) A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.

Noun : (uncountable) A certain Italian card game for two to four players.

canonical

Adjective : Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

Adjective : According to recognised or orthodox rules.

Adjective : Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

casualty

Noun : Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.

Noun : A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.

Noun : (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.

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) A written letter of defiance or challenge.

careful

Adjective : Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

Adjective : Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

Adjective : (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.

catfish

Noun : Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

Noun : The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

Verb : To fish for catfish.

callus

Noun : A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.

Noun : The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

Noun : (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

cartouche

Noun : (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.

Noun : (Egyptian hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.

Noun : A paper cartridge.

carpet

Noun : A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

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

Noun : Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

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