7-letter words containing a, c, y
- byplace — a private place
- cabbagy — having the characteristics of the cabbage as in odor, taste, or color; cabbagelike.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
- cacodyl — an oily poisonous liquid with a strong garlic smell; tetramethyldiarsine. Formula: [(CH3)2As]2
- cacoepy — bad or mistaken pronunciation
- caconym — an erroneous name, esp in taxonomic classification
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- cadency — the line of descent from a younger member of a family
- calcify — to convert or be converted into lime
- calgary — a city in Canada, in S Alberta: centre of a large agricultural region; oilfields. Pop: 879 277 (2001)
- callboy — a person who notifies actors when it is time to go on stage
- caloyer — a monk of the Greek Orthodox Church, esp of the Basilian Order
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- calvary — a representation of Christ's crucifixion, usually sculptured and in the open air
- calyces — calyx
- calycle — a cup-shaped structure, as in the coral skeleton
- calydon — ancient city in S Aetolia, central Greece
- calypso — A calypso is a song about a current subject, sung in a style which originally comes from the West Indies.
- calyxes — Botany. the outermost group of floral parts; the sepals.
- camelry — the part of an army composed of troops mounted on camels
- campery — campness
- campily — in a campy manner
- cankery — having a canker or cankers
- cannery — A cannery is a factory where food is canned.
- cannily — in a canny manner
- canonry — the office, benefice, or status of a canon
- cantily — In a canty manner.
- canyons — Plural form of canyon.
- capably — having power and ability; efficient; competent: a capable instructor.
- caprify — to induce (a fig) to ripen
- caraway — Caraway is a plant with strong-tasting seeds that are used in cooking. Caraway seeds are often used to flavour bread and cakes.
- carboys — Plural form of carboy.
- carlyle — Robert. born 1961, Scottish actor; his work includes the television series Cracker and Hamish Macbeth and the films Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The Beach (2000), and 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- carnify — (esp of lung tissue, as the result of pneumonia) to be altered so as to resemble skeletal muscle
- carolyn — a feminine name
- carroty — of a reddish or yellowish-orange colour
- carryed — Simple past tense and past participle of carry; archaic spelling of carried.
- carryon — Alternative spelling of carry-on.
- cartway — a cart track
- carvery — an eating establishment at which customers pay a set price and may then have unrestricted helpings of food from a variety of meats, salads, and other vegetables
- castory — the dye derived from beaver pelts
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- catseye — a glass reflector set into a small fixture, placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night
- cattery — A cattery is a place where you can leave your cat to be looked after when you go on holiday.
- cattily — In a catty manner.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- cavally — Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.
- cavalry — The cavalry is the part of an army that uses armoured vehicles for fighting.
- cawdrey — Robert. 16th–17th-century English schoolmaster and lexicographer: compiled the first English dictionary (A Table Alphabeticall) in 1604