7-letter words containing a, c, n
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- lanchow — a city in and the capital of Gansu province, in N China, on the Huang He.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- lancing — a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- laocoon — Classical Mythology. a priest of Apollo at Troy who warned the Trojans of the Trojan Horse, and who, with his two sons, was killed by two huge serpents sent by Athena or Apollo.
- larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
- larchen — Of or pertaining to the larch tree.
- latence — Obsolete form of latency.
- latency — the state of being latent.
- latinic — of or relating to the Latin language or the ancient Latin-speaking peoples.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- lecuona — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1963, Cuban composer.
- legnica — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- limacon — a plane curve generated by the locus of a point on a line at a fixed distance from the point of intersection of the line with a fixed circle, as the line revolves about a point on the circumference of the circle. Equation: r = a cosθ + b.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- locarno — a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Maggiore: Locarno Pact 1925.
- lochans — Plural form of lochan.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- lockman — (Scotland, archaic) A public executioner.
- locoman — a locomotive engine driver.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- lucania — an ancient region in S Italy, NW of the Gulf of Taranto.
- lucarne — a dormer window.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lyncean — of or relating to a lynx; lynxlike.
- macaron — a round, colored cookie consisting of a ganache or buttercream filling between two halves made from beaten egg whites mixed with sugar and ground almonds.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- macedon — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- machans — Plural form of machan.
- machaon — a son of Asclepius who was famed as a healer and who served as physician of the Greeks in the Trojan War.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- mack on — a pimp.
- macking — a pimp.
- maclean — Donald. 1913–83, British civil servant, who spied for the Russians: fled to the former Soviet Union (with Guy Burgess) in 1951
- macrons — Plural form of macron.
- mahican — a tribe or confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- mancala — (games, board games) A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- mandioc — (obsolete) manioc.
- maniack — Obsolete form of maniac.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.
- manicou — The common opossum, taxonomic name Didelphis marsupialis.
- manjack — a west Indian tree with slimy fruit
- manpack — a compact load able to be carried by one person