6 Letter Words That Start With C

candid

Adjective : Impartial and free from prejudice.

Adjective : Straightforward, open and sincere.

Adjective : Not posed or rehearsed.

convey

Verb : To move (something) from one place to another.

Verb : (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.

Verb : To communicate; to make known; to portray.

cogent

Adjective : Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.

Adjective : Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.

Adjective : Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.

candor

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

Noun : Impartiality.

Noun : (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity.

clamor

Noun : A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

Noun : Any loud and continued noise.

Noun : A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

cerise

Noun : A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.

Adjective : (of textiles, especially silk) Cherry-colored; a light bright red.

Noun : A female given name from French.

cackle

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

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

Noun : Futile or excessively noisy talk.

comely

Adjective : Attractive; visually pleasing; good-looking.

Adjective : Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.

Adjective : Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.

compel

Verb : (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up.

Verb : (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.

Verb : (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.

coerce

Verb : (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

Verb : (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

Verb : (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

charge

Noun : The amount of money levied for a service.

Noun : (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Noun : A forceful forward movement.

covert

Adjective : (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

Adjective : (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

Adjective : (law, historical) Under coverture.

callow

Adjective : Bald, hairless, bare.

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

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

common

Adjective : Mutual; shared by more than one.

Adjective : Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.

Adjective : Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

caress

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

Noun : A gentle stroking or rubbing.

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

clutch

Verb : To seize, as though with claws.

Verb : To grip or grasp tightly.

Verb : (video games) To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.

clever

Adjective : Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.

Adjective : Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.

Adjective : Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.

carnal

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

Adjective : Worldly or earthly; temporal.

Adjective : Of or relating to the body or flesh.

choler

Noun : Anger or irritability.

Noun : (historical, medicine) One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

concur

Verb : To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.

Verb : To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.

Verb : (obsolete) To run together; to meet.

cohort

Noun : A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

Noun : (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

Noun : (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).

coarse

Adjective : With a rough texture; not smooth.

Adjective : Composed of large particles.

Adjective : Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.

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.

climax

Noun : (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.

Noun : (obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.

Noun : (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

clench

Verb : To grip or hold fast.

Verb : To close tightly.

Noun : A tight grip.

cretin

Noun : (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.

Noun : (by extension, derogatory) An idiot.

craven

Adjective : Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.

Noun : (archaic) A coward.

Verb : (archaic) To make craven.

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.

create

Verb : (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)

Verb : (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.

Verb : To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

confer

Verb : (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.

Verb : (intransitive) To talk together, to consult, discuss; to collogue.

Verb : (obsolete) To compare.

chorus

Noun : (Ancient Greece, historical)

Noun : A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.

Noun : A song performed by the singers of such a group.

casual

Adjective : Happening by chance.

Adjective : Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

Adjective : Employed irregularly.

cinder

Noun : Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions

Noun : An ember.

Noun : Slag from a metal furnace.

cringe

Verb : (intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

Verb : (intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.

Verb : (intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.

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

comply

Verb : To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.

Verb : (archaic) To accomplish, to fulfil.

Verb : (archaic) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

center

Noun : The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.

Noun : The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.

Noun : The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.

canted

Adjective : Having angles; angled.

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

crisis

Noun : A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

Noun : An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

Noun : (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.

chance

Noun : (countable) An opportunity or possibility.

Noun : (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.

Noun : (countable) The probability of something happening.

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.

chaste

Adjective : Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly

Adjective : Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.

Adjective : Synonym of celibate, abstaining from any sexual intercourse.

cheeky

Adjective : (informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.

Adjective : (informal, of swimwear, underwear, etc.) Tending to expose the cheeks of the buttocks.

Adjective : (Australian Aboriginal) Poisonous (of animals such as snakes), dangerous, cunning, violent, potent.

change

Verb : (intransitive) To become something different.

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.

Verb : (transitive) To replace.

cipher

Noun : A numeric character.

Noun : Any text character.

Noun : A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.

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.

clique

Noun : A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

Noun : (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

Noun : (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

caveat

Noun : A warning.

Noun : A qualification or exemption.

Noun : (law) A formal objection.

custom

Noun : Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

Noun : (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.

Noun : (collectively) The habitual patrons (i.e. customers) of a business; business support.

choice

Noun : An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

Noun : (uncountable) The power to choose.

Noun : One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

cosmos

Noun : (countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

Noun : (by extension) A harmonious, ordered whole.

Noun : (uncountable) Harmony, order.

caring

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

Noun : The act of one who cares.

craggy

Adjective : Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.

course

Noun : A sequence of events.

Noun : A normal or customary sequence.

Noun : A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

cleave

Verb : (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

Verb : (transitive, mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.

Verb : (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

cachet

Noun : (archaic) A seal, as of a letter.

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.

clinch

Verb : To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

Verb : To clasp; to interlock.

Verb : To fasten securely or permanently.

chided

Adjective : chided, reproved, rebuked, scolded

corpse

Noun : A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.

Noun : (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.

Verb : (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.

chapel

Noun : (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

Noun : A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.

Noun : A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

convoy

Noun : (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.

Noun : A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.

Noun : The act of convoying; protection.

cherub

Noun : (biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

Noun : (post-biblical) A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.

Noun : In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.

circle

Noun : (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).

Noun : (colloquial) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.

Noun : Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.

corona

Noun : A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

Noun : (anatomy) An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.

Noun : A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.

cradle

Noun : A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

Noun : (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

Noun : (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

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 : (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

crotch

Noun : The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.

Noun : The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

Noun : (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.

consul

Noun : (historical) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

Noun : (historical) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.

Noun : (obsolete) A count or earl.

combat

Noun : A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).

Noun : a struggle for victory

Verb : (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.

classy

Adjective : Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.

Adjective : Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.

cervix

Noun : (anatomy) The neck.

Noun : (anatomy) The necklike portion of an organ or part of the body.

Noun : (now specifically) The cervix uteri, or lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

cosmic

Adjective : Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.

Adjective : Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.

Adjective : Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.

cavern

Noun : A large cave.

Noun : An underground chamber.

Noun : A large, dark place or space.

coitus

Noun : (formal or humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration.

chummy

Adjective : (informal) Friendly:

Adjective : Naturally and genuinely easy to get along with.

Adjective : Making a show of friendliness; attempting to be on intimate terms but insincerely or inappropriately; cozying up.

coquet

Noun : A flirtatious female; a coquette.

Noun : (obsolete) A flirtatious male.

Verb : To act as a flirt or coquet.

collar

Noun : Clothes that encircle the neck.

Noun : The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.

Noun : A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.

client

Noun : A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

Noun : (computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.

Noun : A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

canker

Noun : (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.

Noun : A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.

Noun : A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.

cravat

Noun : A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.

Noun : (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.

Noun : (surgery) A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.

cosset

Verb : (transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.

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

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To benefit; to make life easy for.

cranky

Adjective : (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition.

Adjective : Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.

Adjective : Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.

cavort

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

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

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

cirque

Noun : (historical) A Roman circus.

Noun : (geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.

Noun : (dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring.

coiled

Adjective : In the form of coils; having coils.

Adjective : Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

cautel

Noun : (obsolete) deceit

Noun : (obsolete) caution; prudence; wariness

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

c-word

Noun : (euphemistic) The word cunt, regarded as vulgar and a swear word.

Noun : (euphemistic) The word crap, often considered mildly vulgar.

Noun : (euphemistic) Less frequently, a word like cock or cock-sucker, camel-jockey, Chink, ching chong, or cracker, regarded as taboo or offensive.

credit

Verb : (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.

Verb : (transitive, accounting) To add to an account.

Verb : (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.

cement

Noun : (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.

Noun : (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.

Noun : (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.

cheese

Noun : (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Noun : (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

Noun : (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

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.

corner

Noun : The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

Noun : The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.

Noun : The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

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.

clinic

Noun : A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

Noun : (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.

Noun : (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.

claret

Noun : (chiefly UK) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.

Noun : A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.

Noun : (UK, colloquial) Blood.

cursed

Adjective : Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.

Adjective : (obsolete) Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).

Adjective : hateful; damnable; accursed

ceased

Verb : (formal, intransitive) To stop.

Verb : (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

colony

Noun : An area under the political control of another country and typically occupied by settlers (colonists) from it, or by their descendants.

Noun : A group of people who settle such an area and maintain ties to their native country, and (later) their descendants.

Noun : A group of people, of one nationality, ethnic group, or language, residing in a different country, city, or area; the area such people occupy.

carrot

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

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.

commit

Verb : (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Verb : (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

Verb : (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

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