7-letter words containing a, b, e, c
- carbone — Obsolete form of carbon.
- caribes — Plural form of caribe.
- casebox — a device, similar to an abacus, for recording the cards as they are drawn from the dealing box.
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cembalo — harpsichord
- cerebra — cerebrum
- chaebol — a large, usually family-owned, business group in South Korea
- chamber — A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
- chambre — (of wine) at room temperature
- 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.
- clabber — curdled milk
- clamber — If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet.
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- codable — capable of being coded
- corbeau — a blackish green colour
- cowbane — any of several N temperate poisonous umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Cicuta, esp C. virosa, having clusters of small white flowers
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
- crabber — a crab fisherman
- cubbena — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cudbear — a purple dye prepared from lichens
- cueball — the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
- curable — If a disease or illness is curable, it can be cured.
- debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
- debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
- decibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/10 bar or 100,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- ebauche — a rough sketch or initial version
- ecbasis — (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
- embrace — An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
- facebar — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler stretches the skin on his opponent's face backwards
- hebraic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews, their language, or their culture.
- ice bag — a waterproof bag to be filled with ice and applied to the head or another part of the body to be cooled.
- iceball — a ball of ice or snow
- icebath — Alternative spelling of ice bath.
- iceboat — a vehicle for rapid movement on ice, usually consisting of a T -shaped frame on three runners driven by a fore-and-aft sailing rig or, sometimes, by an engine operating a propeller.
- imbrace — Obsolete spelling of embrace.
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- macaber — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- macbeth — died 1057, king of Scotland 1040–57.
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- pacable — easily appeased
- pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- rebecca — a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “binding.”.
- redback — a small venomous Australian spider, Latrodectus hasselti, having long thin legs and, in the female, a red stripe on the back of its globular abdomen