5 Letter Words Starting with C
Every 5-letter English word in the JumbleFix dictionary that starts with C. Each word links to its definition. Face-value Scrabble and Words With Friends scores are shown so you can pick a high-scoring play without leaving the page.
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- chuckScrabble 16 · WWF 18
v. i.. To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
- chudeScrabble 11 · WWF 12
Old Slavic term for Finnic peoples. Chud or Chude is a term historically applied in the early East Slavic annals to several Baltic Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.
- chuetScrabble 10 · WWF 11
n.. Minced meat.
- chufaScrabble 13 · WWF 14
n.. A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.
- chuffScrabble 16 · WWF 17
n.. A coarse or stupid fellow.
- chugsScrabble 11 · WWF 13
verb. Third person singular present of chug: makes a dull, explosive sound, as of an engine running slowly.
- chumpScrabble 14 · WWF 17
n.. A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
- chumsScrabble 12 · WWF 14
noun. Plural of chum; close friends.
- chunkScrabble 14 · WWF 16
n.. A short, thick piece of anything.
- churlScrabble 10 · WWF 12
n.. A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
- churnScrabble 10 · WWF 12
v. t.. A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
- churrScrabble 10 · WWF 11
v.. make a vibrant sound, as of some birds
- chuseScrabble 10 · WWF 11
v. t.. See Choose.
- chuteScrabble 10 · WWF 11
n.. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- chyleScrabble 13 · WWF 13
n.. A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
- chymeScrabble 15 · WWF 15
n.. The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
- cibolScrabble 9 · WWF 12
n.. A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
- cicerScrabble 9 · WWF 11
n.. chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs
- ciderScrabble 8 · WWF 9
n.. The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
- cigarScrabble 8 · WWF 10
n.. A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
- ciggyScrabble 12 · WWF 14
noun. Informal term for a cigarette.
- ciguaScrabble 8 · WWF 11
noun. A tropical American palm tree (Acrocomia crispa) with edible, oily nuts.
- ciliaScrabble 7 · WWF 9
n. pl.. The eyelashes.
- cimexScrabble 16 · WWF 18
n.. A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
- cinchScrabble 12 · WWF 14
n.. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
- cinctScrabble 9 · WWF 12
verb. To gird or encircle; to surround.
- cindyScrabble 11 · WWF 12
noun. A female given name, often a diminutive of Cynthia or Lucinda.
- cinelScrabble 7 · WWF 10
noun. A rare term for a cinema or movie theater.
- cinesScrabble 7 · WWF 9
noun. Plural of cine; motion pictures or films.
- cinqsScrabble 16 · WWF 18
noun. Plural of cinq; fives in dice or cards.
- cionsScrabble 7 · WWF 9
noun. Plural of cion; shoots or scions used for grafting.
- cippiScrabble 11 · WWF 14
pl.. of Cippus
- ciproScrabble 9 · WWF 11
n.. an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints
- circeScrabble 9 · WWF 11
n.. (Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
- circsScrabble 9 · WWF 11
noun. Informal short for circumstances.
- ciresScrabble 7 · WWF 8
noun. Plural of cire; fabrics or finishes with a glossy, polished appearance.
- cirioScrabble 7 · WWF 8
n.. candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers
- cirriScrabble 7 · WWF 8
n. pl.. See Cirrus.
- ciscoScrabble 9 · WWF 11
n.. The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
- cissyScrabble 10 · WWF 10
a.. having unsuitable feminine qualities
- cistaScrabble 7 · WWF 8
noun. A box or chest, especially a cylindrical container used in ancient religious rites.
- cistsScrabble 7 · WWF 8
noun. Plural of cist; ancient stone coffins or chests.
- citalScrabble 7 · WWF 9
n.. Summons to appear, as before a judge.
- citedScrabble 8 · WWF 9
imp. & p. p.. of Cite
- citeeScrabble 7 · WWF 8
noun. A person who is cited, especially in a legal summons or notice.
- citerScrabble 7 · WWF 8
n.. One who cites.
- civetScrabble 10 · WWF 12
n.. A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.
- civicScrabble 12 · WWF 15
a.. Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
- civilScrabble 10 · WWF 13
a.. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
- civvyScrabble 16 · WWF 18
noun. Informal term for a civilian, especially as opposed to a member of the armed forces.