5-Letter Words Starting with C: page 2

All 559 five-letter words that start with C: page 2 of 2

CO

• corer7n. A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or...
• corky14adj. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
• corno7n. French horn.
• cornu7n. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
• corny10adj. Boring and unoriginal.
• corps9n. A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
• corro7n. Written communications, especially in a business setting.
• corse7n. A (living) body.
• coset7n. The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a...
• cosmo9n. A cosmopolitan, a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice...
• costa7n. Synonym of rib.
• cotch12v. To hang out or chill out; to relax.
• cotta7n. A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full...
• couch12n. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of...
• cough11v. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or...
• could8v. Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
• count7v. To recite numbers in sequence.
• coupe9n. A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling...
• cours7n. Three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural...
• court7n. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls...
• couth10adj. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
• coven10n. A nunnery, a convent.
• cover10n. A lid.
• covet10v. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
• covey13n. A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes...
• covid11n. A cubit.
• covin10n. Fraud, deception.
• cowal10n. A billabong, or stagnant pool.
• cowan10n. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an...
• cowed11adj. Frightened into submission.
• cower10v. To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
• cowie10n. A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
• coxal14adj. Sciatic (relating to the hip).
• coxed15adj. Having a cox.
• coxie14n. A coxswain.
• coyly13adv. In a coy manner.
• coypu12n. A large, crepuscular, semiaquatic rodent (Myocastor coypus) resembling...
• cozen16v. To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or...

CR

• crabs9n. Pubic lice.
• crack13v. To form cracks.
• craft10n. Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying...
• craic9n. Often preceded by the: amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable...
• craig8n. A rocky crag.
• crake11n. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
• crame9n. A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall.
• cramp11n. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled...
• crane7n. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long...
• crank11adj. Hard; difficult.
• crape9n. Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
• craps9n. A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make...
• crapy12adj. Resembling crape.
• crase7v. Early Modern spelling of craze (“break into pieces, crack”).
• crash10n. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
• crass7adj. Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or...
• crate7n. A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
• crave10v. To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
• crawl10v. To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm...
• craze16n. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
• crazy19adj. Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
• creak11n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
• cream9n. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part...
• creat7n. An usher to a riding master (riding instructor).
• credo8n. A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief...
• creed8n. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious...
• creek11n. A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main...
• creel7n. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
• creen7v. To complain; to whine; to moan.
• creep9v. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
• crema9n. The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso.
• crepe9n. A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
• creps9n. Crepitations.
• cress7n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a...
• crest7n. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
• crewe10n. A group of people, especially in Louisiana, who support a Mardi Gras...
• crick13n. A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back...
• crier7n. One who cries.
• crile7n. A small person or creature; a dwarf or runt.
• crime9n. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal...
• crimp11n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal...
• crine7v. To wither, wilt, shrivel.
• crisp9adj. Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also...
• croak11n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• crock13n. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• crocs9n. Eggcorn of crux.
• croft10n. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for...
• croma9n. A quaver.
• crome9n. A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at...
• crone7n. An archetypal figure, a wise woman.
• cronk11v. To honk like a goose.
• crony10n. A close friend.
• crook11n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• croon7v. To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low...
• crore7n. Ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping...
• cross7n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars...
• croup9n. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
• crout7n. Sauerkraut.
• crowd11v. To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• crowl10n. A small person or creature; a dwarf or runt.
• crown10n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• croze16n. A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of...
• cruck13n. A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a...
• crude8adj. In a natural, untreated state.
• crudo8n. A dish made of raw fish or seafood.
• cruel7adj. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless...
• cruet7n. A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as oil...
• cruft10n. Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
• crumb11n. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit...
• crump11n. The sound of a muffled explosion.
• crunk11adj. Crazy and intoxicated.
• cruse7n. An oil lamp; a crusy.
• crush10n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• crust7n. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
• crypt12n. An underground vault.

CU

• cubby14n. A small, confined space.
• cubeb11n. A tailed pepper plant (Piper cubeba), an Indonesian plant cultivated...
• cubed10adj. Raised to the third power.
• cuber9n. Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
• cubes9n. Testicles.
• cubic11adj. Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of...
• cubie9n. One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
• cubit9n. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an...
• cuddy12n. A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing...
• culet7n. A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to...
• culex14n. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry...
• cully10n. A companion.
• culpa9n. Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud)...
• culty10adj. Resembling a cult.
• cumin9n. The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
• cupid10n. A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.
• cuppa11n. A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
• cuppy14adj. Having the form of a cup.
• cupro9n. Rayon made by the cuproammonium process.
• curdy11adj. Like, or full of, curd; coagulated.
• curer7n. A healer.
• curia7n. Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome.
• curie7n. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
• curio7n. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
• curls7n. Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
• curly10adj. Having curls.
• curry10n. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by...
• curse7n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
• curva10n. The bank of seats behind the goal, especially in continental European...
• curve10n. A bend, such as in a road.
• curvy13adj. Having curves.
• cushy13adj. Making few demands; comfortable, easy.
• cutch12n. A preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong...
• cutes7n. Cuteness.
• cutie7n. A cute person or animal.
• cutis7n. The true skin, underlying the epidermis.
• cutty10adj. Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
• cutup9n. Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for...

CW

• cwtch15n. A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.

CY

• cyano10n. A univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and a...
• cyber12adj. Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.
• cycad13n. Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk...
• cycas12n. Any member of the plant genus Cycas.
• cycle12n. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is...
• cyclo12n. A tuk-tuk.
• cynic12n. A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.

Related word lists

• 5-Letter Words
• Words That Start with C
• 5-Letter Words Ending in C
• 4-Letter Words Starting with C
• 6-Letter Words Starting with C
• Q Words Without U