7-letter words containing a, c, n
- cranach — Lucas (ˈluːkas), known as the Elder, real name Lucas Müller. 1472–1553, German painter, etcher, and designer of woodcuts
- cranage — the use of a crane
- cranial — Cranial means relating to your cranium.
- craning — any large wading bird of the family Gruidae, characterized by long legs, bill, and neck and an elevated hind toe.
- cranio- — indicating the cranium or cranial
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- cranked — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- cranker — a crank vessel.
- crankle — a bend or twist
- crankly — in a crank manner
- cranmer — Thomas. 1489–1556, the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56) and principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. He was burnt as a heretic by Mary I
- crannog — an ancient Celtic lake or bog dwelling dating from the late Bronze Age to the 16th century ad, often fortified and used as a refuge
- craping — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crating — a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- cratons — Plural form of craton.
- craunch — crunch
- cravens — Plural form of craven.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- crayons — Plural form of crayon.
- crazing — to derange or impair the mind of; make insane: He was crazed by jealousy.
- creance — a long fine cord used to restrain a hawk or falcon during training
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- crémant — (of wine) moderately sparkling
- cremona — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy on the River Po: noted for the manufacture of fine violins in the 16th–18th centuries. Pop: 70 887 (2001)
- crenate — having a scalloped margin, as certain leaves
- crewman — A crewman is a member of a crew.
- crimean — of or relating to the Crimea or its inhabitants
- crinate — having hair; hairy
- crontab — (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- ct scan — a scan done by a computerized tomography scanner
- 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)
- cullman — a city in N Alabama.
- cumaean — of Cumae
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cuneate — wedge-shaped: cuneate leaves are attached at the narrow end
- currant — Currants are small dried black grapes, used especially in cakes.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- curtana — the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy
- cushman — Charlotte Saunders [sawn-derz,, sahn-] /ˈsɔn dərz,, ˈsɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1816–76, U.S. actress.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- cwmbran — a new town in SE Wales, in Torfaen county borough, developed in the 1950s. Pop: 47 254 (2001)
- cyanate — any salt or ester of cyanic acid, containing the ion –OCN or the group –OCN
- cyanide — Cyanide is a highly poisonous substance.
- cyanine — a blue dye used to extend the sensitivity of photographic emulsions to colours other than blue and ultraviolet
- cyanite — kyanite
- cyanize — to turn into cyanide
- cycasin — a glucoside occurring in cycads, toxic and carcinogenic to mammals
- cynical — If you describe someone as cynical, you mean they believe that people always act selfishly.
- cynthia — a feminine name: dim. Cindy