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7-letter words containing a, c, n

  • inhance — Obsolete spelling of enhance.
  • ink sac — a large gland in most cephalopods, as the cuttlefish, octopus, and squid, that is near the rectum and ejects ink at predators.
  • ink-cap — any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap (Coprinus comatus), also called lawyer's wig, a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales
  • inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
  • inscape — the unique essence or inner nature of a person, place, thing, or event, especially depicted in poetry or a work of art.
  • insecta — the class comprising the insects.
  • interac — a system of electronic bank payments or withdrawals
  • iracund — prone to anger; irascible.
  • ithacan — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
  • jacalyn — a female given name.
  • jacanas — Plural form of jacana.
  • jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
  • jack in — abandon, quit
  • jackeen — a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner
  • jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
  • jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
  • jackman — (motor racing) A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.
  • jackson — a state in the S United States. 47,716 sq. mi. (123,585 sq. km). Capital: Jackson. Abbreviation: MS (for use with zip code), Miss.
  • jacobin — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
  • jaconet — a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
  • janacek — Leoš [le-awsh] /ˈlɛ ɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1928, Czech composer.
  • jannock — honest; fair; straightforward.
  • joyance — joyous feeling; gladness.
  • joycean — of, relating to, or characteristic of James Joyce or his work.
  • kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
  • kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
  • katcina — kachina.
  • kechuan — Quechuan.
  • kincaidJamaica, born 1949, West Indian novelist and short-story writer.
  • knacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knack.
  • knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
  • kneecap — the patella.
  • koranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
  • kranachLucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
  • kronachLucas ("the Elder") 1472–1553, German painter and graphic artist.
  • l chain — Immunology. either of an identical pair of polypeptides in the antibody molecule that lie parallel to the upper parts of the heavy chain pair and are half the molecular weight.
  • laceman — (dated) A male dealer in lace.
  • lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
  • lachlan — a river in S New South Wales, Australia, flowing NW and SW to the Murrumbidgee River. 922 miles (1484 km) long.
  • lacings — Plural form of lacing.
  • lacinia — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
  • lacking — being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
  • laconia — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
  • laconic — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
  • lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
  • lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
  • lacunal — of or relating to a lacuna.
  • lacunar — Architecture. a coffered vault, ceiling, or soffit. coffer (def 4).
  • lacunas — Plural form of lacuna.
  • 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.
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