7-letter words containing c, a, r, p
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
- percase — maybe; perhaps
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- 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.
- picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
- picamar — a hydrocarbon oil extracted from beechwood tar
- picardy — a region in N France: formerly a province.
- piccard — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1884–1962, Swiss physicist, aeronaut, inventor, and deep-sea explorer: designer of bathyscaphes.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- piscary — Law. the right or privilege of fishing in particular waters.
- placard — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- plectra — plectrum.
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- practic — practical.
- pranced — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- prancer — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precava — See under vena cava.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- preface — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- 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.
- prerace — of the period before a race
- priapic — (sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to Priapus; phallic.
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- privacy — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- procarp — (in red algae) a carpogonium with its associated cells.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- proface — much good may it do you!
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- ptarmic — a material that causes sneezing
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
- rapacki — Adam (ˈadam). 1909–70, Polish politician: foreign minister (1956–68): proposed (1957) the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany (the Rapacki Plan): rejected by the West because of Soviet predominance in conventional weapons
- raploch — a coarse homespun woollen material
- ratpack — a close-knit group of people with common interests who participate in various professional and recreational activities together.
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- repatch — to patch again
- replace — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- respace — to change the spacing of