7-letter words containing c, a, n, l
- laconic — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- lacunal — of or relating to a lacuna.
- lacunar — Architecture. a coffered vault, ceiling, or soffit. coffer (def 4).
- lacunas — Plural form of lacuna.
- laennec — René Théophile Hyacinthe [ruh-ney tey-aw-feel ya-sant] /rəˈneɪ teɪ ɔˈfil yaˈsɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- lanchow — a city in and the capital of Gansu province, in N China, on the Huang He.
- 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.
- laocoon — Classical Mythology. a priest of Apollo at Troy who warned the Trojans of the Trojan Horse, and who, with his two sons, was killed by two huge serpents sent by Athena or Apollo.
- larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
- larchen — Of or pertaining to the larch tree.
- latence — Obsolete form of latency.
- latency — the state of being latent.
- latinic — of or relating to the Latin language or the ancient Latin-speaking peoples.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- lecuona — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1963, Cuban composer.
- 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.
- locarno — a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Maggiore: Locarno Pact 1925.
- lochans — Plural form of lochan.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- lockman — (Scotland, archaic) A public executioner.
- locoman — a locomotive engine driver.
- 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.
- lucarne — a dormer window.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lyncean — of or relating to a lynx; lynxlike.
- maclean — Donald. 1913–83, British civil servant, who spied for the Russians: fled to the former Soviet Union (with Guy Burgess) in 1951
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- mancala — (games, board games) A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
- mcallen — a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- mclaren — Norman, 1914–87, Canadian film director and animator, born in Scotland.
- mcluhan — Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.
- mcnally — Terrance, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- melanic — Pathology. melanotic.
- nacelle — the enclosed part of an airplane, dirigible, etc., in which the engine is housed or in which cargo or passengers are carried.
- nalchik — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in N Caucasia, N of the Georgian Republic. 4747 sq. mi. (12,295 sq. km). Capital: Nalchik.
- nicolai — (Carl) Otto (Ehrenfried) [kahrl awt-oh ey-ruh n-freet] /kɑrl ˈɔt oʊ ˈeɪ rənˌfrit/ (Show IPA), 1810–49, German composer.
- nicolas — a masculine name
- nicolay — John George, 1832–1901, U.S. biographer.