7-letter words containing c, a, k, e
- lacketh — Archaic third-person singular form of lack.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- leacock — Stephen (Butler) 1869–1944, Canadian humorist and economist.
- lockage — the construction, use, or operation of locks, as in a canal or stream.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- mackled — Simple past tense and past participle of mackle.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- makedoc — A program from Carleton University, Ottawa that generates documentation for Objective C programs. It will also generate a class hierarchy diagram. The output format is similar to that used by StepStone.
- maybeck — Bernard, 1862–1957, U.S. architect.
- mckenna — Siobhan [shuh-vawn,, -von] /ʃəˈvɔn,, -ˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), 1923–86, Irish actress.
- meacock — (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
- mudcake — Mudcake is solid residue from the drilling fluid, left when the liquid passes through a permeable medium.
- nechako — a river in central British Columbia, Canada, flowing NE and E to the Fraser river. About 150 miles (240 km) long.
- netback — a calculation of the price of crude-oil products based on the price of crude oil.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nutcake — A cake made with nuts.
- oatcake — a cake, usually thin and brittle, made of oatmeal.
- oilcake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- pacceka — Pratyeka.
- package — a bundle of something, usually of small or medium size, that is packed and wrapped or boxed; parcel.
- pancake — a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peck at — bird: poke with beak
- phacker — (communications, security) A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
- pickaxe — a pick, especially a mattock.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- prepack — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- quacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quack.
- quacker — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- rackers — Plural form of racker.
- rackets — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- rackett — ranket.
- rackety — making or causing a racket; noisy.
- redback — a small venomous Australian spider, Latrodectus hasselti, having long thin legs and, in the female, a red stripe on the back of its globular abdomen
- restack — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- retrack — to track again
- sackage — the act of sacking a place
- saclike — a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- seacock — a valve in the hull of a vessel for admitting outside water into some part of the hull, as a ballast tank.
- seajack — the hijacking of a ship, especially one that occurs while the vessel is under way.
- seasick — afflicted with seasickness.
- setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- shacked — to chase and throw back; to retrieve: to shack a ground ball.
- shacket — a yellowjacket or hornet.
- shackle — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slacker — a slack condition or part.
- smacker — a dollar.
- snacker — a person who snacks or eats between main meals
- spackle — a hole-filling compound