5-Letter Words Starting C & Ending PS

• the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)

• a small cut of meat including part of a rib

• a jaw

• a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

• a grounder that bounces high in the air

• cut into pieces with repeated blows

• move suddenly

• form or shape by chopping

• strike sharply, as in some sports

• cut with a hacking tool

• hit sharply

• a boy or man

• a long narrow depression in a surface

• a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

• (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs

• crack due to dehydration

• an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

• temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

• a group of people living together in a camp

• temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• a penal institution (often for forced labor)

• something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality

• shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

• a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months

• providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

• live in or as if in a tent

• establish or set up a camp

• give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

• an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

• a body of people associated together

• a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

• an instance or single occasion for some event

• any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

• an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

• the act of clipping or snipping

• a sharp slanting blow

• sever or remove by pinching or snipping

• run at a moderately swift pace

• attach with a clip

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• expressions used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot

• a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice

• a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

• a brilliant and notable success

• point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch)

• a thin triangular flap of a heart valve

• small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth