7-letter words containing a, b, c, i
- brachia — Anatomy. the part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow.
- bracing — If you describe something, especially a place, climate, or activity as bracing, you mean that it makes you feel fresh and full of energy.
- breccia — a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- buccina — a curved brass horn used by the ancient Roman army
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- cabbing — a taxicab.
- cabeiri — Cabiri.
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabinda — an exclave of Angola, separated from the rest of the country by part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pop: about 300 000 (2002 est). Area: 7270 sq km (2807 sq miles)
- cabined — a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction: He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.
- cabinet — A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
- cabling — Cabling is used to refer to electrical or electronic cables, or to the process of putting them in a place.
- cabrini — Saint Frances Xavier(1850-1917); U.S. nun, born in Italy: first U.S. citizen canonized: her day is Dec. 22: called Mother Cabrini
- cabrito — the flesh of a young goat, used as food
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- caliban — a brutish or brutalized man
- caliber — the size of a bullet or shell as measured by its diameter
- calibre — The calibre of a person is the quality or standard of their ability or intelligence, especially when this is high.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- cap jib — a jib set on a stay to a bowsprit cap.
- carabid — any typically dark-coloured beetle of the family Carabidae, including the bombardier and other ground beetles
- carbide — a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element
- carbine — A carbine is a light automatic rifle.
- caribes — Plural form of caribe.
- caribou — A caribou is a large north American deer.
- catbird — any of several North American songbirds of the family Mimidae (mockingbirds), esp Dumetella carolinensis, whose call resembles the mewing of a cat
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- chablis — a dry white burgundy wine made around Chablis, in central France
- chibcha — a member of a South American Indian people that lived in central Colombia and had a highly developed civilization
- chiluba — Frederick, 1943–2011, president of Zambia 1991–2002.
- ciboria — Plural form of ciborium.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- coalbin — a bin for holding coal
- cohabit — If two people are cohabiting, they are living together and have a sexual relationship, but are not married.
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- copaiba — a transparent yellowish viscous oleoresin obtained from certain tropical South American trees of the leguminous genus Copaifera: used in varnishes and ointments
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- crabbit — bad-tempered
- cubical — of or related to volume