7-letter words containing c, e
- blockie — an owner of a small property, esp a farm
- blucher — a high shoe with laces over the tongue
- bobeche — a cup or ring around the socket of a candlestick, intended to catch dripping wax
- bockedy — (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) unsteady
- bolices — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- boscage — a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket
- botched — bungled or mishandled
- botcher — to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
- bouchee — small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture
- boucher — François (frɑ̃swa). 1703–70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects
- bouclée — support for a cue in billiards using the hand
- bouncer — A bouncer is a man who stands at the door of a club, prevents unwanted people from coming in, and makes people leave if they cause trouble.
- bracero — a Mexican labourer working in the USA, esp one admitted into the country to relieve labour shortages during and immediately after World War II
- bracken — Bracken is a large plant with leaves that are divided into many thin sections. It grows on hills and in woods.
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- breccia — a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- bricken — made of bricks
- bricker — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- brickie — A brickie is the same as a bricklayer.
- brickle — brittle
- bricole — a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball and before touching another ball
- brioche — Brioche is a kind of sweet bread.
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- brocked — having different colours; variegated
- brocken — a mountain in central Germany: the highest peak of the Harz Mountains; important in German folklore. Height: 1142 m (3747 ft). The Brocken Bow or Brocken Spectre is an atmospheric phenomenon in which an observer, when the sun is low, may see his enlarged shadow against the clouds, often surrounded by coloured lights
- brocket — any small deer of the genus Mazama, of tropical America, having small unbranched antlers
- brubeck — Dave. 1920–2012, US modern jazz pianist and composer; formed his own quartet in 1951
- brucine — bitter poisonous alkaloid resembling strychnine and obtained from the tree Strychnos nuxvomica: used mainly in the denaturation of alcohol. Formula: C23H26N2O4
- brucite — the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, translucent and white or pale green in colour
- bruckle — brittle, fragile
- buchner — Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1860–1917, German chemist who demonstrated that alcoholic fermentation is due to enzymes in the yeast: Nobel prize for chemistry 1907
- buckeen — (in Ireland) a poor young man who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy
- buckeye — any of several North American trees of the genus Aesculus, esp A. glabra (Ohio buckeye), having erect clusters of white or red flowers and prickly fruits: family Hippocastanaceae
- buckled — Buckled shoes have buckles on them, either to fasten them or as decoration.
- buckler — a small round shield worn on the forearm or held by a short handle
- buckley — William F., Jr. 1925–2008, U.S. writer and editor.
- buckner — Simon Bolivar [bol-uh-ver] /ˈbɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1823–1914, U.S. Confederate general and politician.
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- bunched — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- bycoket — a type of high-crowned hat
- byplace — a private place
- c gelee — Claude [klohd] /kloʊd/ (Show IPA), Lorraine, Claude.
- c shell — (operating system) (csh) The Unix command-line interpreter shell and script language by William Joy, originating from Berkeley Unix. Presumably, csh's C-like syntax was intended to endear it to programmers but sadly it lacks some sh features which are useful for writing shell scripts so you need to know two different syntaxes for every shell construct. A plethora of different shells followed csh, e.g. tcsh, ksh, bash, rc, but sh and csh are the only ones which are provided with most versions of Unix.
- c-store — convenience store.
- caballe — Montserrat (monserˈrat). born 1933, Spanish operatic soprano