7-letter words containing c, a, i, n
- infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- inhance — Obsolete spelling of enhance.
- ink sac — a large gland in most cephalopods, as the cuttlefish, octopus, and squid, that is near the rectum and ejects ink at predators.
- ink-cap — any of several saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi of the genus Coprinus, whose caps disintegrate into a black inky fluid after the spores mature. It includes the shaggy ink-cap (Coprinus comatus), also called lawyer's wig, a distinctive fungus having a white cylindrical cap covered with shaggy white or brownish scales
- inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- inscape — the unique essence or inner nature of a person, place, thing, or event, especially depicted in poetry or a work of art.
- insecta — the class comprising the insects.
- interac — a system of electronic bank payments or withdrawals
- iracund — prone to anger; irascible.
- ithacan — one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). Greek Itháki.
- jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
- jack in — abandon, quit
- jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
- 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.
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kanchil — A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus.
- katcina — kachina.
- kincaid — Jamaica, born 1949, West Indian novelist and short-story writer.
- koranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- l chain — Immunology. either of an identical pair of polypeptides in the antibody molecule that lie parallel to the upper parts of the heavy chain pair and are half the molecular weight.
- lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
- lacings — Plural form of lacing.
- lacinia — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- lacking — being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
- laconia — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- laconic — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- lancing — a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- latinic — of or relating to the Latin language or the ancient Latin-speaking peoples.
- legnica — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- limacon — a plane curve generated by the locus of a point on a line at a fixed distance from the point of intersection of the line with a fixed circle, as the line revolves about a point on the circumference of the circle. Equation: r = a cosθ + b.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- lucania — an ancient region in S Italy, NW of the Gulf of Taranto.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- macking — a pimp.
- mahican — a tribe or confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- mandioc — (obsolete) manioc.
- maniack — Obsolete form of maniac.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.
- manicou — The common opossum, taxonomic name Didelphis marsupialis.
- mantric — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- marcian — a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.