7-letter words containing a, e, c, u
- camaieu — a cameo
- capsule — A capsule is a very small tube containing powdered or liquid medicine, which you swallow.
- capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- capuche — a large hood or cowl, esp that worn by Capuchin friars
- capulet — the family name of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- caquetà — the Japurá River from its source in Colombia to the border with Brazil
- cardecu — an old French coin worth a quarter of an écu
- careful — If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- carouse — If you say that people are carousing, you mean that they are behaving very noisily and drinking a lot of alcohol as they enjoy themselves.
- casaque — a loose-fitting blouse for women.
- caseous — of or like cheese
- casques — Plural form of casque.
- catechu — a water-soluble astringent resinous substance obtained from any of certain tropical plants, esp the leguminous tree Acacia catechu of S Asia, and used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing
- catouse — New England. a noisy disturbance; commotion.
- caudate — having a tail or a tail-like appendage
- cauline — relating to or growing from a plant stem
- caulked — Simple past tense and past participle of caulk.
- caulker — a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
- caulome — the stem structure of a plant considered as a whole
- causate — (philosophy) The effect of a cause.
- causers — Plural form of causer.
- causeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cause.
- 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)
- cayuses — Plural form of cayuse.
- cenaeum — (in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- censual — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- centaur — In classical mythology, a centaur is a creature with the head, arms, and upper body of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- chanute — a town in SE Kansas.
- chapeau — a hat
- chateau — A château is a large country house or castle in France.
- chaucer — Geoffrey. ?1340–1400, English poet, noted for his narrative skill, humour, and insight, particularly in his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales. He was influenced by the continental tradition of rhyming verse. His other works include Troilus and Criseyde, The Legende of Good Women, and The Parlement of Foules
- chaumer — the living quarters used by farm workers
- chaunce — Archaic spelling of chance.
- chaunge — Obsolete form of change.
- chausse — (historical) Armor for the legs, usually made of mail.
- cheneau — an ornamented cresting on a cornice or coping.
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- claques — Plural form of claque.
- claudel — Paul (Louis Charles Marie) (pɔl). 1868–1955, French dramatist, poet, and diplomat, whose works testify to his commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. His plays include L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) and Le Soulier de satin (1919–24)
- clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- cocteau — Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1889–1963, French dramatist, novelist, poet, critic, designer, and film director. His works include the novel Les Enfants terribles (1929) and the play La Machine infernale (1934)
- coequal — of the same size, rank, etc
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- corbeau — a blackish green colour