7-letter words containing a, c, e, h
- marchen — a German fairy tale or fictional story
- marcher — an inhabitant of, or an officer or lord having jurisdiction over, a march or border territory.
- marches — Francis Andrew, 1825–1911, U.S. philologist and lexicographer.
- matched — Simple past tense and past participle of match.
- matcher — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- matches — Plural form of match.
- matchet — Machete.
- maunche — a conventional representation of a sleeve with a flaring end, used as a charge.
- meilhac — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1831–97, French dramatist: collaborator with Ludovic Halévy.
- mesarch — Botany. (of a primary xylem or root) developing from both the periphery and the center; having the older cells surrounded by the younger cells.
- meshach — a companion of Daniel.
- michael — a militant archangel. Dan. 10:13.
- micheas — Micah (defs 1, 2).
- mleccha — a non-Indian barbarian; a foreigner in ancient India.
- natchez — a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.
- nechako — a river in central British Columbia, Canada, flowing NE and E to the Fraser river. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ootheca — a case or capsule containing eggs, as that of certain gastropods and insects.
- oraches — Plural form of orache.
- oscheal — relating to or resembling the scrotum
- panache — a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair: The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.
- panoche — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- patched — repaired with patches; covered with patches
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- phacker — (communications, security) A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
- phocaea — an ancient seaport in Asia Minor: northernmost of the Ionian cities; later an important maritime state.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- poached — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- poaches — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- queachy — unwell
- quechan — Yuma (defs 1, 2).
- quechua — the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
- rachets — Plural form of rachet.
- rancher — a person who owns or works on a ranch.
- raschel — a type of loosely knitted fabric
- ratchet — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- reaches — The upper, middle, or lower reaches of a river are parts of a river. The upper reaches are nearer to the river's source and the lower reaches are nearer to the sea into which it flows.
- recatch — to catch (something or someone) again
- rechart — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- recheat — (in a hunt) the sounding of the horn to call back or signal to the hounds
- relache — an interval or period of rest, a break from something
- relatch — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- rematch — to match again; duplicate: an attempt to rematch a shade of green paint.
- repatch — to patch again
- reteach — to teach again