7-letter words containing c, a, i, n
- conrail — a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- contain — If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
- coquina — a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- 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
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- cotinga — any tropical American passerine bird of the family Cotingidae, such as the umbrella bird and the cock-of-the-rock, having a broad slightly hooked bill
- 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.
- crating — a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- crazing — to derange or impair the mind of; make insane: He was crazed by jealousy.
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- crimean — of or relating to the Crimea or its inhabitants
- crinate — having hair; hairy
- 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
- 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.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- cyanide — Cyanide is a highly poisonous substance.
- cyanine — a blue dye used to extend the sensitivity of photographic emulsions to colours other than blue and ultraviolet
- cyanite — kyanite
- cyanize — to turn into cyanide
- cycasin — a glucoside occurring in cycads, toxic and carcinogenic to mammals
- cynical — If you describe someone as cynical, you mean they believe that people always act selfishly.
- cynthia — a feminine name: dim. Cindy
- cyprian — of or relating to Cyprus
- czarina — variant spellings (esp US) of tsarina or tsaritsa
- dancing — When people dance for enjoyment or to entertain others, you can refer to this activity as dancing.
- diconal — a brand of dipanone, an opiate drug with potent analgesic properties: used to relieve severe pain
- dinaric — of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to N Albania and extending across W Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- dulcian — an organ-stop consisting of pipes made of reeds
- dunciad — a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers.
- dynamic — (of a process or system) Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- emicant — Beaming forth; flashing.
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc
- enchain — Bind with or as with chains.
- encinal — relating to species of encina
- encomia — Plural form of encomium.
- ethnica — Plural form of ethnicon.
- eucaine — a crystalline optically active substance formerly used as a local anaesthetic. Formula: C15H21NO2
- faciend — the multiplicand in an equation (also referred to as the facient)
- facings — Plural form of facing.
- faction — a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account.