7-letter words containing c, e, a
- cheetah — A cheetah is a wild animal that looks like a large cat with black spots on its body. Cheetahs can run very fast.
- chelate — a coordination compound in which a metal atom or ion is bound to a ligand at two or more points on the ligand, so as to form a heterocyclic ring containing a metal atom
- chelsea — a residential district of SW London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: site of the Chelsea Royal Hospital for old and infirm soldiers (Chelsea Pensioners)
- cheneau — an ornamented cresting on a cornice or coping.
- chennai — a port in SE India, capital of Tamil Nadu, on the Bay of Bengal: founded in 1639 by the English East India Company as Fort St George; traditional burial place of St Thomas; university (1857). Pop: 4 216 268 (2001)
- chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- chilean — of or relating to Chile or its inhabitants
- chimera — A chimera is an unrealistic idea that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely to be fulfilled.
- cholate — a cholic acid salt
- cholera — Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
- chorale — A chorale is a piece of music sung as part of a church service.
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- cienaga — a city in N Colombia, on the SE coast of the Caribbean Sea.
- cienega — a swamp or marsh, especially one formed and fed by springs.
- cigaret — a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.
- ciliate — possessing or relating to cilia
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- cimaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- cimelia — treasures
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- cinemas — Plural form of cinema.
- cinerea — the grey matter of the brain and nervous system
- circean — Also, Kirke. Also called Aeaea. Classical Mythology. the enchantress represented by Homer as turning the companions of Odysseus into swine by means of a magic drink.
- cirrate — bearing or resembling cirri
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
- citrate — any salt or ester of citric acid. Salts of citric acid are used in beverages and pharmaceuticals
- clabber — curdled milk
- clacked — to make a quick, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking or cracking: The loom clacked busily under her expert hands.
- clacker — an object that makes a clacking sound
- clacket — Make a series of sharp sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.
- cladded — covered with cladding
- cladder — a person who clads (roofs or walls)
- cladode — a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf, as in butcher's-broom
- claimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- claimer — a person who makes a claim; claimant
- clamber — If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet.
- clammed — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- clammer — a person who gathers clams
- clamped — Simple past tense and past participle of clamp.
- clamper — a spiked metal frame fastened to the sole of a shoe to prevent slipping on ice
- clanged — Simple past tense and past participle of clang.
- clanger — You can refer to something stupid or embarrassing that someone does or says as a clanger.
- clanked — a sharp, hard, nonresonant sound, like that produced by two pieces of metal striking, one against the other: the clank of chains; the clank of an iron gate slamming shut.
- clanker — Something that makes a clanking noise.
- clapped — to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation.
- clapper — a person or thing that claps
- claques — Plural form of claque.
- clarice — a feminine name