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5-Letter Words That Start With: CAN

There are 20 5-letter words, 1 5-letter phrase and 0 5-letter abbr's that start with CAN.

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candy5
11 nounn
noun

• a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

verb

• coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

canny5
10 adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

canty5
10 adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• lively and brisk

canid5
8 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

caned5
8 verbv
noun

• a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

• a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

• a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment

verb

• beat with a cane

canal5
7 nounn
noun

• (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

verb

• provide (a city) with a canal

canoe5
7 nounn
noun

• small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle

verb

• travel by canoe

canon5
7 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy

• a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

• a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall

• a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts

• a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church

• a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired

canst5
7 verbv
verb

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

• (modal auxiliary verb, defective) May; to be permitted or enabled to.

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

• (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.

• To know.

• To seal in a can.

• To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

• To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

• To shut up.

• To fire or dismiss an employee.

• To hole the ball.

canto5
7 nounn
noun

• the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

• a major division of a long poem

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