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7-letter words containing c, e, p

  • pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
  • pedicel — Botany. a small stalk. an ultimate division of a common peduncle. one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower.
  • pedicle — a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.
  • pedocal — a soil rich in carbonates, especially those of lime.
  • pelagic — of or relating to the open seas or oceans.
  • pelican — any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
  • pemican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
  • penance — a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
  • penicil — a small, brushlike tuft of hairs, as on a caterpillar.
  • pentact — a sponge spicule with five rays
  • pentice — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
  • penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
  • peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
  • percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
  • percase — maybe; perhaps
  • percent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
  • percept — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
  • perched — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
  • percher — a person or thing that perches.
  • perches — a former division of N France.
  • perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
  • percine — a perch-like fish, esp one belonging to the family Percidae
  • percoct — well-cooked; overcooked
  • percoid — belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
  • percuss — Medicine/Medical. to strike or tap for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
  • perfect — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
  • pericon — Argentinian dance
  • pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
  • petcock — a small valve or faucet, as for draining off excess or waste material from the cylinder of a steam engine or an internal-combustion engine.
  • petscii — (character)   /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.
  • phacker — (communications, security)   A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
  • phocaea — an ancient seaport in Asia Minor: northernmost of the Ionian cities; later an important maritime state.
  • phocine — of or relating to seals.
  • phrenic — Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
  • picante — prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, especially with a hot and spicy sauce.
  • piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
  • pickaxe — a pick, especially a mattock.
  • pickeer — to engage in skirmishes in advance of troops of an army.
  • pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • pickery — petty theft
  • pickett — Bill, 1871–1932, U.S. rodeo performer: famed as bulldogger.
  • pickled — preserved or steeped in brine or other liquid.
  • pickney — a child
  • picotee — a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
  • picquet — a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.
  • picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
  • picrite — a granular igneous rock composed chiefly of olivine and augite, but containing small amounts of feldspar.
  • picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
  • piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
  • piecing — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
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