6-letter words containing cal
- calpac — a large black brimless hat made of sheepskin or felt, worn by men in parts of the Near East
- calque — a borrowing by which a specialized meaning of a word or phrase in one language is transferred to another language by a literal translation of each of the individual elements (Ex.: masterpiece, from German meisterstück)
- caltha — a yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plant, Caltha palustris, that grows in swampy places
- calved — Simple past tense and past participle of calve.
- calver — to prepare (a fish) while it is still fresh
- calves — calf1
- calvin — John, original name Jean Cauvin, Caulvin, or Chauvin. 1509–64, French theologian: a leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland, establishing the first presbyterian government in Geneva. His theological system is described in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- calvus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.
- cercal — of or relating to a tail
- cicala — cicada.
- circal — CIRcuit CALculus
- coccal — Bacteriology. a spherical bacterium.
- coucal — any ground-living bird of the genus Centropus, of Africa, S Asia, and Australia, having long strong legs: family Cuculidae (cuckoos)
- decals — Plural form of decal.
- discal — relating to or resembling a disc; disclike
- encalm — to becalm, settle
- epical — (literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
- faecal — feces.
- faucal — pertaining to the fauces or opening of the throat.
- fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- glocal — of or relating to the interconnection of global and local issues, factors, etc.: a glocal conference on community development.
- incall — A visit by a client to a prostitute.
- jacals — Plural form of jacal.
- laical — (archaic) Of or pertaining to a layman or laity.
- lo-cal — low-cal.
- locale — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locals — Plural form of local.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- modcal — A version of HP-PASCAL enhanced with system programming constructs, used internally by HP.
- mycale — a promontory in W Asia Minor, in present-day W Turkey, opposite Samos: site of a Persian defeat by the Greeks in 479 b.c.
- no-cal — not containing any calories: a no-cal sweetener.
- pascal — a high-level programming language, a descendant of ALGOL, designed to facilitate structured programming.
- paucal — a grammatical number occurring in some languages for words in contexts where a few of their referents are described or referred to
- rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
- recall — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
- scalar — representable by position on a scale or line; having only magnitude: a scalar variable.
- scaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- scaler — a person or thing that scales.
- scales — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scalia — Antonin [an-tuh-nin] /ˈæn tə nɪn/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1986.
- scally — a rascal; rogue
- sulcal — of or pertaining to a sulcus
- thecal — a case or receptacle.
- tincal — a former name for crude native borax.
- uncalm — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- vocals — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- zocalo — a public square or plaza, especially in the center of a city or town.