Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Carburize (v. t.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.

(1) - Carcajou (n.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.

(1) - Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.

(1) - Carcass (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
(2) - Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
(3) - Carcass (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
(4) - Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.