7-letter words containing a, y, c
- cayenne — the capital of French Guiana, on an island at the mouth of the Cayenne River: French penal settlement from 1854 to 1938. Pop: 57 229 (2011)
- caymans — Plural form of cayman.
- cayuses — Plural form of cayuse.
- cecally — through the caecum, the large bowel
- cellary — Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.
- chaitya — a Buddhist shrine in India; stupa.
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chanoyu — a Japanese ceremony at which tea is prepared, served, and taken with an ancient and involved ritual.
- chantey — a song formerly sung by sailors in rhythm with their motions while working, as while turning a capstan
- chantry — an endowment for the singing of Masses for the soul of the founder or others designated by him or her
- charily — cautiously; carefully
- charity — A charity is an organization which raises money in order to help people who are sick, very poor, or who have a disability.
- charley — Victor Charlie.
- charpoy — a bedstead of woven webbing or hemp stretched on a wooden frame on four legs, common in India
- chayote — a tropical American cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Sechium edule, that has edible pear-shaped fruit enclosing a single enormous seed
- cheaply — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- chlamys — a short woollen cloak, secured on the right shoulder, worn by ancient Greek men and soldiers
- chogyal — the title of the ruler of Sikkim
- ciliary — of or relating to cilia
- clairty — Misspelling of clarity.
- clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- clarity — The clarity of something such as a book or argument is its quality of being well explained and easy to understand.
- claying — a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- clayish — Resembling clay.
- claypan — a layer of stiff impervious clay situated just below the surface of the ground, which holds water after heavy rain
- clayton — John Middleton, 1796–1856, U.S. jurist and politician: senator 1829–36, 1845–49, 1853–56; secretary of state 1849–50.
- cleanly — in a fair manner
- clearly — in a clear, distinct, or obvious manner
- coalify — to turn into coal
- cocoyam — either of two food plants of West Africa, the taro or the yantia, both of which have edible underground stems
- codasyl — Conference On DAta SYstems Languages
- company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
- conakry — the capital of Guinea, a port on the island of Tombo. Pop: 1 465 000 (2005 est)
- copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
- corally — Having the shape or form of coral.
- corcyra — Corfu
- coryate — Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- coryzal — relating to coryza
- coryzas — Plural form of coryza.
- cosplay — a recreational activity in which people interact with one another while dressed as fictional characters
- cowardy — A cowardly person (often used as a taunt by children).
- crackly — Something that is crackly, especially a recording or broadcast, has or makes a lot of short, harsh noises.
- crankly — in a crank manner
- crassly — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- crawley — a town in S England, in NE West Sussex: designated a new town in 1956. Pop: 100 547 (2001)
- crayola — /kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a killer micro.
- crayons — Plural form of crayon.
- crazily — If something moves crazily, it moves in a way or in a direction that you do not expect.
- crybaby — If someone calls a child a crybaby, they mean that the child cries a lot for no good reason.
- crystal — A crystal is a small piece of a substance that has formed naturally into a regular symmetrical shape.