7-letter words containing a, l, b, c
- caliber — the size of a bullet or shell as measured by its diameter
- calibre — The calibre of a person is the quality or standard of their ability or intelligence, especially when this is high.
- callboy — a person who notifies actors when it is time to go on stage
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambrel — gambrel.
- capable — If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
- capably — having power and ability; efficient; competent: a capable instructor.
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- cembalo — harpsichord
- chablis — a dry white burgundy wine made around Chablis, in central France
- chabrol — Claude (klod). 1930–2010, French film director, whose films, such as Le Beau Serge (1958), Les Biches (1968), Le Boucher (1969), Au coeur du mensonge (1999), and La Fleur du mal (2003) explore themes of jealousy, guilt, and murder
- chaebol — a large, usually family-owned, business group in South Korea
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chiluba — Frederick, 1943–2011, president of Zambia 1991–2002.
- citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- clabber — curdled milk
- clamber — If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet.
- clubman — a man who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- coalbin — a bin for holding coal
- coalbox — a box for holding coal
- codable — capable of being coded
- colbath — Jeremiah Jones, Wilson, Henry.
- collabo — In urban contemporary music, slang for a musical collaboration with another artist.
- columba — as in Alpha Columbae. a small constellation in the S hemisphere south of Orion
- conflab — (informal) A discussion.
- cubical — of or related to volume
- cubital — of or relating to the forearm
- cueball — the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
- curable — If a disease or illness is curable, it can be cured.
- curably — In a curable manner.
- cymbals — Plural form of cymbal.
- debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
- flyback — the return to its starting point of the electron beam in a cathode ray tube, as after the completion of a line in a television picture or of a trace in an oscilloscope.
- iceball — a ball of ice or snow
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- laibach — German name of Ljubljana.
- layback — Figure Skating. a spin, usually performed by a woman, in which the upper body is arched backward and the free leg lifted and turned out from the hip.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- lo-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- pacable — easily appeased
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- scabble — to shape or dress (stone) roughly.
- scamble — a long bench used in a farm kitchen
- scribal — a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- subclan — a clan within a larger clan
- vocable — a word; term; name.