7-letter words containing a, c, l, e
- flacker — To flutter as a bird.
- flacket — a flagon, bottle, or flask for holding alcohol
- galenic — of or relating to Galen, his principles, or his methods.
- gallice — in French
- galoche — Alternative spelling of galoshe.
- glacier — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glanced — Simple past tense and past participle of glance.
- glancer — One who glances.
- glances — Plural form of glance.
- gracile — gracefully slender.
- grackle — any of several long-tailed American birds of the family Icteridae, especially of the genus Quiscalus, having usually iridescent black plumage.
- hackled — Simple past tense and past participle of hackle.
- hackler — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- hackles — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- haeckel — Ernst Heinrich [ernst hahyn-rikh] /ɛrnst ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1834–1919, German biologist and philosopher of evolution.
- halleck — Fitz-Green [fits-green,, fits-green] /ˈfɪtsˌgrin,, fɪtsˈgrin/ (Show IPA), 1790–1867, U.S. poet.
- harlech — a town in N Wales, in Gwynedd: noted for its ruined 13th-century castle overlooking Cardigan Bay: tourism. Pop: 1233 (2001)
- hatchel — hackle1 (def 5).
- helical — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- hellcat — a bad-tempered, spiteful, woman; shrew.
- iceball — a ball of ice or snow
- icefall — a jumbled mass of ice in a glacier.
- iceland — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- jackleg — unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
- kocaeli — Izmit.
- kolache — a sweet bun filled with jam or pulped fruit.
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- lace up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- lace-up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- laceman — (dated) A male dealer in lace.
- lacerta — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere, part of which is crossed by the Milky Way, lying between Cygnus and Andromeda
- lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
- lachute — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lackers — Plural form of lacker.
- lacketh — Archaic third-person singular form of lack.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lacquer — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquey — a servile follower; toady.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactate — to produce milk.
- lacteal — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling milk; milky.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- laennec — René Théophile Hyacinthe [ruh-ney tey-aw-feel ya-sant] /rəˈneɪ teɪ ɔˈfil yaˈsɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.
- laicize — to remove the clerical character or nature of; secularize: to laicize a school; to laicize the office of headmaster.
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.