7-letter words containing c, e, a
- discage — to release (an animal or bird) from a cage
- discase — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- dispace — to move or travel about
- dockage — a curtailment; deduction, as from wages.
- dodeca- — indicating twelve
- dogface — an enlisted man in the U.S. Army, especially an infantryman in World War II.
- dracone — A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- ducasse — Jean Jules Amable Roger- [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh raw-zhey] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), Roger-Ducasse, Jean Jules Amable.
- ducdame — a nonsensical refrain used in Shakespeare's As You Like It
- durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- e-acute — (character) "É" - a capital "E" with an acute accent. Character code 201, 0xC9. Entity reference: É.
- earache — pain in the ear; otalgia.
- earlock — a lock of hair worn near or in front of the ear.
- earpick — an implement for picking at the ear and removing earwax
- ebauche — a rough sketch or initial version
- ecap ii — Electronic Circuit Analysis Program. Simple language for analysing electrical networks. "Introduction to Computer Analysis: ECAP for Electronics Technicians and Engineers", H. Levin, P-H 1970.
- ecbasis — (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
- echappe — a ballet movement in which the dancer jumps from the fifth position and lands on the toes or the balls of the feet in the second position.
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- eckhart — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), ("Meister Eckhart") c1260–1327? Dominican theologian and preacher: founder of German mysticism.
- eco-tax — a tax levied on services, products, etc that adversely affect the environment
- ecofact — (achaeology) A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation.
- ecotage — sabotage aimed at polluters or destroyers of the natural environment.
- ecstacy — Obsolete spelling of ecstasy.
- ecstasy — rapturous delight.
- ectasia — (medicine) ectasis.
- ectasis — Dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
- ectatic — (medical) Of or relating to ectasia.
- ecthyma — a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.
- ectopia — the usually congenital displacement of an organ or part.
- ectozoa — any animal parasite, as the louse, that lives on the surface of its host (opposed to entozoon).
- ectypal — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- ecuador — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- edacity — the state of being edacious; voraciousness; appetite.
- edaphic — related to or caused by particular soil conditions, as of texture or drainage, rather than by physiographic or climatic factors.
- edictal — Of, pertaining to, or derived from edicts.
- edifact — ISO 9735:1988
- educand — Someone who is to be, or is being educated.
- educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- educrat — An education administrator.
- effaced — Simple past tense and past participle of efface.
- egg sac — a silken case or capsule containing eggs of a female spider.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- eleatic — denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory
- electra — the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- elegiac — (especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality.
- ellagic — (of an acid) derived from gallnuts
- emacity — Desire or fondness for buying.
- embrace — An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
- emicant — Beaming forth; flashing.