7-letter words containing a, i, r, c
- clarino — of or relating to a high passage for the trumpet in 18th-century music
- clarion — a four-foot reed stop of trumpet quality on an organ
- clarity — The clarity of something such as a book or argument is its quality of being well explained and easy to understand.
- clarkia — any North American onagraceous plant of the genus Clarkia: cultivated for their red, purple, or pink flowers
- clavier — any keyboard instrument
- clipart — large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer
- cochair — to chair jointly
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- conrail — a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- cordial — Cordial means friendly.
- coremia — the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- corival — Alternative form of corrival.
- corizza — Italian name of Korçë.
- corrida — a public program in which a series of bullfights, usually six, are held
- corsair — a pirate
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- corvina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- crabbit — bad-tempered
- crackie — a small noisy dog.
- craigie — Sir William A(lexander). 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901–33), and of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938–44)
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- 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.
- craping — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crating — a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- crazier — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazies — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazily — If something moves crazily, it moves in a way or in a direction that you do not expect.
- crazing — to derange or impair the mind of; make insane: He was crazed by jealousy.
- creatic — of or relating to flesh or meat
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- crimean — of or relating to the Crimea or its inhabitants
- crinate — having hair; hairy
- criolla — a woman or girl of Spanish descent born in Spanish America
- crissal — of or relating to the crissum.
- cristae — a crest or ridge.
- croatia — a republic in SE Europe: settled by Croats in the 7th century; belonged successively to Hungary, Turkey, and Austria; formed part of Yugoslavia (1918–91); became independent in 1991 but was invaded by Serbia and fighting continued until 1995; involved in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1991–95); joined the European Union in 2013. Language: Croatian. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: kuna. Capital: Zagreb. Pop: 4 475 611 (2013 est). Area: 55 322 sq km (21 359 sq miles)
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- 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
- cuirass — a piece of armour, of leather or metal covering the chest and back
- 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.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- curiosa — curiosities
- curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.