| ashcan | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, dustbin, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin |
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| barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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| barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| can | (noun) airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. | Synonyms: tin, tin can |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) a buoy with a round bottom and conical top | Synonyms: can buoy |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a can | Synonyms: canful |
| (verb) preserve in a can or tin | Synonyms: put up, tin |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| cancan | (noun) a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line | - |
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| coracan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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| heterostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| oilcan | (noun) a can with a long nozzle to apply oil to machinery | - |
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| osteostracan | (noun) extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head | Synonyms: cephalaspid |
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| pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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| (noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
| (noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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| pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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| publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| toucan | (noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak | - |
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