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5 letter words starting with can

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  • CANAL
  • CANDO
  • CANDY
  • CANED
  • CANEH
  • CANER
  • CANES
  • CANGS
  • CANID
  • CANNA
  • CANNS
  • CANNY
  • CANOE
  • CANON
  • CANSO
  • CANST
  • CANTI
  • CANTO
  • CANTS
  • CANTY

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of canal

canal (noun)

  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. A tubular channel within the body.
  3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

canal (verb)

  1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
  2. To travel along a canal by boat



Definition of canny

canny (adjective)

  1. Careful, prudent, cautious.
  2. Knowing, shrewd, astute.
  3. Frugal, thrifty.
  4. Pleasant, fair, favorable or agreeable to deal with.
  5. Gentle, quiet, steady.

canny (adverb)

  1. Very, considerably; quite, rather.
  2. Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.

canny (adjective)

  1. (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.

Definition of cants

cants (noun)

  1. An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
  2. A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
  3. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
  4. Empty, hypocritical talk.
  5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
  6. A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
  7. A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.

cants (verb)

  1. To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
  2. To speak in set phrases.
  3. To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
  4. Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
  5. To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

cants (noun)

  1. Side, edge, corner, niche.
  2. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
  3. A corner (of a building).
  4. An outer or external angle.
  5. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
  6. A movement or throw that overturns something.
  7. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
  8. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  9. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  10. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

cants (verb)

  1. To set (something) at an angle.
  2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
  3. To bevel an edge or corner.
  4. To overturn so that the contents are emptied.

cants (noun)

  1. A parcel, a division.

cants (verb)

  1. To divide or parcel out.