Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Camarilla (n.) A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
(2) - Camarilla (n.) The private audience chamber of a king.

(1) - Camber (v. i.) To curve upward.
(2) - Camber (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
(3) - Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
(4) - Camber (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

(1) - Cambist (n.) A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

(1) - Cambium (n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
(2) - Cambium (n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.