7-letter words containing c, a, b
- curably — In a curable manner.
- cutback — A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- cwmbran — a new town in SE Wales, in Torfaen county borough, developed in the 1950s. Pop: 47 254 (2001)
- cymbals — Plural form of cymbal.
- debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
- debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
- decibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/10 bar or 100,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- dibasic — (of an acid, such as sulphuric acid, H2SO4) containing two acidic hydrogen atoms
- dibrach — pyrrhic1 (def 3).
- dicamba — a white crystalline solid used as a weedkiller
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- ebauche — a rough sketch or initial version
- ecbasis — (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
- embrace — An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
- fabrick — Obsolete form of fabric.
- fabrics — Plural form of fabric.
- facebar — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler stretches the skin on his opponent's face backwards
- fanback — (of a chair) having a fan-shaped back.
- fatback — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. the fat and fat meat from the upper part of a side of pork, usually cured by salt.
- faxback — An interactive electronic service allowing documents to be downloaded via fax machine.
- finback — any baleen whale of the genus Balaenoptera, having a prominent dorsal fin, especially B. physalus, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; rorqual: an endangered species.
- 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.
- go back — return
- hackbut — harquebus.
- hawbuck — a country bumpkin
- hebraic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Hebrews, their language, or their culture.
- hibachi — a small Japanese-style charcoal brazier covered with a grill, usually used for outdoor cooking.
- hogback — a long, sharply crested ridge, generally formed of steeply inclined strata that are especially resistant to erosion.
- hubcaps — Plural form of hubcap.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- ice bag — a waterproof bag to be filled with ice and applied to the head or another part of the body to be cooled.
- iceball — a ball of ice or snow
- icebath — Alternative spelling of ice bath.
- iceboat — a vehicle for rapid movement on ice, usually consisting of a T -shaped frame on three runners driven by a fore-and-aft sailing rig or, sometimes, by an engine operating a propeller.
- ichabod — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “without honor.”.
- imbrace — Obsolete spelling of embrace.
- in banc — sitting as a full court
- jacobin — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobus — a former gold coin of England issued by James I.
- 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.
- macaber — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- macbeth — died 1057, king of Scotland 1040–57.
- macumba — a Brazilian cult incorporating the use of fetishes and sorcery and deriving largely from African practices.
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.