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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

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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 canes

canes (noun)

  1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
  2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
  3. A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
  4. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
  5. A local European measure of length; the canna.

canes (verb)

  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
  2. To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
  3. To do something well, in a competent fashion
  4. To produce extreme pain
  5. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

canes (noun)

  1. The genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World.

Definition of canna

canna (noun)

  1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

canna (noun)

  1. A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

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 canon

canon (noun)

  1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
  2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
  3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
  4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
  5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
  6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
  10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
  11. Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
  12. A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
  13. A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
  14. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
  15. A carom.

canon (noun)

  1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
  2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

canon (noun)

  1. A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.