7-letter words containing c, l, a, s
- falcons — Plural form of falcon.
- fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fiscals — Plural form of fiscal.
- flacons — Plural form of flacon.
- garlics — (rare) Plural form of garlic.
- glances — Plural form of glance.
- glaucus — A genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
- glucans — Plural form of glucan.
- hackles — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
- iliacus — a muscle near the ilium which flexes the hip joint
- incisal — Relating to an incisor, or to the cutting edge of another tooth.
- inclasp — enclasp.
- ischial — Pertaining to the ischium. (from 19th c.).
- islamic — the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
- isocola — a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length, as “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”.
- italics — designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
- jackals — Plural form of jackal.
- jalisco — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- klatsch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- lachish — a Canaanite city captured by Joshua: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lacings — Plural form of lacing.
- lackers — Plural form of lacker.
- lackeys — Plural form of lackey.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lacunas — Plural form of lacuna.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- larches — Plural form of larch.
- lascars — Plural form of lascar.
- lascaux — the site of a cave in SW France, in the Dordogne: contains Palaeolithic wall drawings and paintings
- latches — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- leaches — Plural form of leach.
- liassic — of or pertaining to the Lias series
- loaches — Plural form of loach.
- locales — a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- lochans — Plural form of lochan.
- locusta — the spikelet of grasses
- lolcats — Plural form of lolcat.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- macules — Plural form of macule.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.