7-letter words containing a, c, e, s, t
- castles — Plural form of castle.
- castner — Hamilton Young. 1858–98, US chemist, who devised the Castner process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide
- catches — Plural form of catch.
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- catouse — New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- catseye — a glass reflector set into a small fixture, placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night
- causate — (philosophy) The effect of a cause.
- causeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cause.
- caveats — Plural form of caveat.
- ceaseth — Archaic third-person singular form of cease.
- celesta — a keyboard percussion instrument consisting of a set of steel plates of graduated length that are struck with key-operated hammers. The tone is an ethereal tinkling sound. Range: four octaves upwards from middle C
- cepstra — cepstrum
- cessant — (obsolete) inactive; dormant.
- chalets — Plural form of chalet.
- chaseth — Archaic third-person singular form of chase.
- chasted — Simple past tense and past participle of chast.
- chasten — If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
- chaster — refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion; virtuous.
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- coasted — Simple past tense and past participle of coast.
- coaster — A coaster is a small mat that you put underneath a glass or cup to protect the surface of a table.
- coatees — Plural form of coatee.
- coaters — Plural form of coater.
- costate — having ribs
- costean — to mine for lodes
- craters — Plural form of crater.
- creates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of create.
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- curates — Plural form of curate.
- cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
- decants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decant.
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- ecstacy — Obsolete spelling of ecstasy.
- ecstasy — rapturous delight.
- ectasia — (medicine) ectasis.
- ectasis — Dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- escheat — The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner’s dying without legal heirs.
- etacism — (grammar) The pronunciation of the Greek eta like the Italian long e, or the vowel in the English word 'ate'.
- faucets — Plural form of faucet.
- festuca — any grass of the genus Festuca, chiefly characterized by tufted blades and spikelets, comprising the fescues.
- hatches — Plural form of hatch.
- hepcats — Plural form of hepcat.
- huastec — a member of an Indian people of Mexico.
- insecta — the class comprising the insects.
- jackets — Plural form of jacket.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.