7-letter words containing c, e, a
- jackers — Plural form of jacker.
- jackets — Plural form of jacket.
- jackleg — unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
- jacksie — (slang, UK) alternative spelling of jacksy.
- jaconet — a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
- jacques — a male given name, French form of Jacob or James.
- janacek — Leoš [le-awsh] /ˈlɛ ɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1854–1928, Czech composer.
- jessica — a female given name, form of Jesse.
- jetpack — a jet-powered backpack used by astronauts to move around in space away from a spacecraft.
- joyance — joyous feeling; gladness.
- joycean — of, relating to, or characteristic of James Joyce or his work.
- kachera — short trousers traditionally worn by Sikhs as a symbol of their religious and cultural loyalty: originally worn for ease of horse riding
- kacheri — Alt form kachcheri.
- kechuan — Quechuan.
- keramic — ceramic.
- kerouac — Jack (Jean-Louis Lefris de Kérouac) 1922–69, U.S. novelist.
- keycard — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- knacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knack.
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- kneecap — the patella.
- kocaeli — Izmit.
- kolache — a sweet bun filled with jam or pulped fruit.
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- lace up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- lace-up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- laceman — (dated) A male dealer in lace.
- lacerta — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere, part of which is crossed by the Milky Way, lying between Cygnus and Andromeda
- lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
- lachute — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lackers — Plural form of lacker.
- lacketh — Archaic third-person singular form of lack.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lacquer — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquey — a servile follower; toady.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactate — to produce milk.
- lacteal — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling milk; milky.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- laennec — René Théophile Hyacinthe [ruh-ney tey-aw-feel ya-sant] /rəˈneɪ teɪ ɔˈfil yaˈsɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.
- laicize — to remove the clerical character or nature of; secularize: to laicize a school; to laicize the office of headmaster.
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- laodice — (in the Iliad) a daughter of Priam and Hecuba who chose to be swallowed up by the earth rather than live as a Greek concubine.
- laplace — Pierre Simon [pyer see-mawn] /pyɛr siˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Marquis de, 1749–1827, French astronomer and mathematician.
- larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.