7-letter words containing c, e, a
- courage — Courage is the quality shown by someone who decides to do something difficult or dangerous, even though they may be afraid.
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- cowbane — any of several N temperate poisonous umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Cicuta, esp C. virosa, having clusters of small white flowers
- cowhage — a tropical, leguminous vine (Mucuna pruriens) bearing pods covered with fine barbed hairs that easily penetrate animal or human skin, causing intense itching: some strains are grown for forage
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
- crabber — a crab fisherman
- cracked — An object that is cracked has lines on its surface because it is damaged.
- cracker — A cracker is a thin, crisp biscuit which is often eaten with cheese.
- cracket — a low stool, often one with three legs
- crackie — a small noisy dog.
- crackle — If something crackles, it makes a rapid series of short, harsh noises.
- cracowe — a boot with a long sharply pointed toe, fashionable in the 14th century
- craddle — Misspelling of cradle.
- cradled — Simple past tense and past participle of cradle.
- cradler — An agricultural worker who uses a cradle (a kind of broad scythe).
- cradles — Plural form of cradle.
- crafted — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- crafter — a person who does craftwork
- cragged — full of crags.
- cragger — a member of a carbon reduction action group
- craigie — Sir William A(lexander). 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901–33), and of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938–44)
- crammed — If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else.
- crammer — A crammer is a school, teacher, or book which prepares students for an exam by teaching them a lot in a short time.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- cranage — the use of a crane
- cranked — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- cranker — a crank vessel.
- crankle — a bend or twist
- cranmer — Thomas. 1489–1556, the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56) and principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. He was burnt as a heretic by Mary I
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- crashed — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- crasher — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- crashes — Plural form of crash.
- crasser — Comparative form of crass.
- craters — Plural form of crater.
- cravens — Plural form of craven.
- crawled — Simple past tense and past participle of crawl.
- crawler — A crawler is a computer program that visits websites and collects information when you do an Internet search.
- crawley — a town in S England, in NE West Sussex: designated a new town in 1956. Pop: 100 547 (2001)
- crazier — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazies — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creaked — Simple past tense and past participle of creak.
- creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.