Words Starting C & Ending AM

• An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.

• A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.

• An Ottoman sultan.

• A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.

• A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan.

• To chew.

• the best people or things in a group

• the part of milk containing the butterfat

• toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

• make creamy by beating

• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• put on cream, as on one's face or body

• remove from the surface

• add cream to one's coffee, for example

• burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

• a piece of paper money worth one dollar

• flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

• gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

• crowd or pack to capacity

• put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled

• study intensively, as before an exam

• prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

• a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

• a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River