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6-letter words (2 found)

CANKER,RECKAN,

5-letter words (13 found)

ACKER,ANKER,CANER,CRAKE,CRANE,CRANK,CREAK,CRENA,NACRE,NAKER,NERKA,RANCE,RANKE,

4-letter words (29 found)

ACER,ACNE,ACRE,ANCE,CAKE,CANE,CARE,CARK,CARN,CRAN,EARN,KANE,KARN,KERN,KNAR,NARC,NARE,NARK,NEAR,NECK,NERK,RACE,RACK,RAKE,RANK,REAK,REAN,RECK,RENK,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,AKE,ANE,ARC,ARE,ARK,CAN,CAR,EAN,EAR,ERA,ERK,ERN,KAE,KEA,KEN,NAE,NEK,RAN,REC,REN,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AN,AR,EA,EN,ER,KA,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 76 words from canker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of canker

canker

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæŋkɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæŋkə/
  • Rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: can‧ker

Etymology 1

From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.

Noun

canker (countable and uncountable, plural cankers)

  1. (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
  2. A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
  3. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
  4. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
  5. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
  6. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
  7. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
  8. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
Synonyms
  • (ulcer, especially of the mouth): water canker, canker of the mouth, noma
  • (bird disease): avian trichomoniasis, roup
  • (hawk disease): frounce
Derived terms
Related terms
  • chancre
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).

Verb

canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankering, simple past and past participle cankered)

  1. (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  2. (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  3. (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  4. (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

References

  • “canker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Neckar, nacker

Scots

Alternative forms

  • cancre, cankyr, kanker

Etymology

Middle English canker, cancre, Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From Latin cancer (“a cancer”).

Pronunciation

  • (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːŋɡkʌr/

Noun

canker (plural cankers)

  1. Bad temper.

Verb

canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankerin, simple past cankert, past participle cankert)

  1. (archaic) To become bad-tempered, to fret, to worry.

Source: wiktionary.org