7-letter words containing c, n, o
- ebonics — Black English.
- echelon — a level of command, authority, or rank: After years of service, she is now in the upper echelon of city officials. Synonyms: place, rank, hierarchy, authority, grade, office; row, tier, rung; social standing, position, class, standing.
- echino- — indicating spiny or prickly
- echoing — (of a sound) Be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
- economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- ecotone — the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- ecotown — (UK) Any of a number of government-sponsored new towns which are intended to achieve exemplary standards of sustainability.
- eggcorn — A word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ).
- en bloc — If a group of people do something en bloc, they do it all together and at the same time. If a group of people or things are considered en bloc, they are considered as a group, rather than separately.
- enactor — One who enacts.
- enclose — Surround or close off on all sides.
- encloud — to hide with clouds; to darken
- encoach — (transitive, archaic) To place or carry in a coach.
- encoded — Convert into a coded form.
- encoder — A device used to encode a signal either for cryptography or compression.
- encodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encode.
- encomia — Plural form of encomium.
- encored — Simple past tense and past participle of encore.
- encores — Plural form of encore.
- enforce — Compel observance of or compliance with (a law, rule, or obligation).
- enounce — To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
- entomic — (zoology) Relating to insects; entomological.
- entopic — (medical) in the usual place, referring to medical or anatomical objects.
- entotic — of or relating to the inner ear
- ericson — Leif (liːf). 10th–11th centuries ad, Norse navigator, who discovered Vinland (?1000), variously identified as the coast of New England, Labrador, or Newfoundland; son of Eric the Red
- exciton — A mobile concentration of energy in a crystal formed by an excited electron and an associated hole.
- faconne — (of a fabric) having a small and elaborate pattern.
- faction — a form of writing or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses them as an integral part of a fictional account.
- falcons — Plural form of falcon.
- faulcon — Obsolete form of falcon.
- favicon — An icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser’s address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list.
- fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
- finnock — a young sea trout on its first return to fresh water
- flacons — Plural form of flacon.
- flounce — to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements: The star flounced out of the studio in a rage.
- flouncy — decorated with flounces: an elaborate flouncy blouse.
- focsani — a town in E central Romania.
- folacin — folic acid.
- fonseca — Gulf of, a bay of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America, bordered by El Salvador on the W, Honduras on the NE, and Nicaragua on the S. About 700 sq. mi. (1800 sq. km).
- forcing — (of a bid) requiring by convention a response from one’s partner, no matter how weak their hand may be.
- fracton — A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure; the fractal analogue of a phonon.
- franco- — Franco- occurs in words connected with France and the French language. For example, a Francophile is someone who likes France and French culture.
- frounce — A form of trichomoniasis affecting hawks, resulting in a sore with a cheesy secretion in the mouth or throat.
- functor — that which functions.
- garcons — Plural form of garcon.
- gascony — a former province in SW France.
- genlock — a method of synchronizing cameras by using an external signal
- genomic — a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- glencoe — a glen in W Scotland, in S Highland: site of a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbells and English troops (1692)
- gluonic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.