7-letter words containing c, a, s
- jacobus — a former gold coin of England issued by James I.
- jacques — a male given name, French form of Jacob or James.
- jalisco — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- jessica — a female given name, form of Jesse.
- jicamas — Plural form of jicama.
- jocasta — Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
- karstic — an area of limestone terrane characterized by sinks, ravines, and underground streams.
- kickass — Alternative spelling of kick-ass.
- klatsch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- lachish — a Canaanite city captured by Joshua: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lacings — Plural form of lacing.
- lackers — Plural form of lacker.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lacunas — Plural form of lacuna.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- larches — Plural form of larch.
- lascars — Plural form of lascar.
- lascaux — the site of a cave in SW France, in the Dordogne: contains Palaeolithic wall drawings and paintings
- latches — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- leaches — Plural form of leach.
- liassic — of or pertaining to the Lias series
- loaches — Plural form of loach.
- locales — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- lochans — Plural form of lochan.
- locusta — the spikelet of grasses
- lolcats — Plural form of lolcat.
- macacos — Plural form of macaco.
- machans — Plural form of machan.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- macrons — Plural form of macron.
- macsyma — Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator. The first comprehensive symbolic mathematics system, written in Lisp by Joel Moses <[email protected]> of MIT in 1969, later Symbolics, Inc. Versions include Symbolics Macsyma, DOE Maxima (ANL, in Common LISP) and Vaxima.
- macules — Plural form of macule.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.
- maracas — a gourd or a gourd-shaped rattle filled with seeds or pebbles and used, often in a pair, as a rhythm instrument.
- marasca — a wild cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, yielding a small, bitter fruit, from which maraschino is made.
- marcels — Plural form of marcel.
- marches — Francis Andrew, 1825–1911, U.S. philologist and lexicographer.
- marcuse — Herbert, 1898–1979, U.S. political and social philosopher, born in Germany.