7-letter words containing a, l, o, c
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- otalgic — (pathology) Of or pertaining to otalgia.
- outcall — A visit by an escort, prostitute, etc., to the address of the caller.
- padlock — a portable or detachable lock with a pivoted or sliding shackle that can be passed through a link, ring, staple, or the like.
- pedocal — a soil rich in carbonates, especially those of lime.
- 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.
- placode — a local thickening of the endoderm in the embryo, that usually constitutes the primordium of a specific structure or organ.
- placoid — platelike, as the scales or dermal investments of sharks.
- podalic — pertaining to the feet.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- pollack — a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa.
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- racloir — a tool (originally of flint) used for scraping
- raploch — a coarse homespun woollen material
- rockall — an uninhabited British island in the N Atlantic, 354 km (220 miles) W of the Outer Hebrides. Area: 0.07 ha (0.18 acres)
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- scallop — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- seconal — secobarbital
- stoical — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- tachiol — silver fluoride.
- taglock — a matted lock of wool or hair.
- talcose — containing or composed largely of talc.
- topical — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- trochal — resembling a wheel.
- uncloak — to remove the cloak from.
- unvocal — not outspoken; reserved; not eloquent in speech; inarticulate.
- vacuole — a membrane-bound cavity within a cell, often containing a watery liquid or secretion.
- viliaco — a coward
- vocable — a word; term; name.
- vocalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vowel.
- vocally — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- vocular — vocal or vocalic
- volatic — a creature with wings
- volcano — a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals.
- voltaic — Electricity. noting or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, especially when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.
- walcott — Derek, born 1930, West Indian poet and playwright: Nobel prize 1992.
- warlock — a man who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a male witch; sorcerer.
- weslaco — a city in S Texas.
- wroclaw — a province in SW Poland.