7-letter words containing c, o, e, t
- destock — (of a retailer) to reduce the amount of stock held or cease to stock certain products
- docents — Plural form of docent.
- docetic — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- dockets — Plural form of docket.
- doctype — (computing) A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.
- dovecot — a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
- eco-tax — a tax levied on services, products, etc that adversely affect the environment
- ecofact — (achaeology) A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation.
- ecolect — A language variety unique to a household.
- ecotage — sabotage aimed at polluters or destroyers of the natural environment.
- ecotone — the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- ecotope — Ecological habitat on the scale of individual organisms sharing space. Many ecotopes together, either adjacent or overlapping, make up an eco-region or larger unit.
- ecotour — A vacation tour or package that showcases ecology (wildlife, etc.) or is ecologically friendly.
- ecotown — (UK) Any of a number of government-sponsored new towns which are intended to achieve exemplary standards of sustainability.
- ecotype — a subspecies or race that is especially adapted to a particular set of environmental conditions.
- ectopia — the usually congenital displacement of an organ or part.
- ectopic — occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.
- ectozoa — any animal parasite, as the louse, that lives on the surface of its host (opposed to entozoon).
- ectropy — (thermodynamics) The overall increase in the organization of a system.
- eductor — ejector (def 3).
- ejector — A device that causes something to be removed or to drop out.
- elector — A person who has the right to vote in an election.
- electro — A style of dance music with a fast beat and synthesized backing track.
- eliotic — of, like, or characteristic of T. S. Eliot or his style
- elocute — (US, legal) To state, assert or admit.
- enactor — One who enacts.
- 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
- erector — A person or thing that erects something.
- ergotic — Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot.
- erotica — pornography
- escorts — Plural form of escort.
- evictor — One who evicts.
- evocate — (rare) To evoke.
- exciton — A mobile concentration of energy in a crystal formed by an excited electron and an associated hole.
- excitor — a nerve that, when stimulated, causes increased activity in the organ or part it supplies
- exotica — Objects considered strange or interesting because they are out of the ordinary, especially because they originated in a distant foreign country.
- exotics — Plural form of exotic.
- fetlock — the projection of the leg of a horse behind the joint between the cannon bone and great pastern bone, bearing a tuft of hair.
- geofact — a rock, bone, shell, or the like that has been modified by natural processes to appear to look like an artifact.
- get.com — (operating system) A command which can be created using debug in MS DOS to set the errorlevel according to which key is pressed. The errorlevel can then be interrogated from a batch file by a series of commands like this: get if errorlevel 118 goto E118 if errorlevel 117 goto E117 if errorlevel 116 goto E116 if errorlevel 115 goto E115 if errorlevel 114 goto E114 where E118 etc. are labels in the batch file.
- hectors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hector.
- henotic — serving to reconcile; promoting peace
- hockett — Charles, 1916–2000, U.S. linguist and anthropologist.
- hogcote — A shed for pigs; a sty.
- hotcake — A pancake.
- ice-out — the breaking up of ice on lakes and streams during spring thaw.
- iceboat — a vehicle for rapid movement on ice, usually consisting of a T -shaped frame on three runners driven by a fore-and-aft sailing rig or, sometimes, by an engine operating a propeller.
- intcode — (language) A low-level interpreted language used in bootstrapping the BCPL compiler. The INTCODE machine has six control registers and eight functions. OCODE was used as the intermediate language.