7-letter words containing c, o, n, t, a
- contras — (often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- coolant — Coolant is a liquid used to keep a machine or engine cool while it is operating.
- coranto — courante
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- cortona — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany: Roman and Etruscan remains, 15th-century cathedral. Pop: 22 048 (2001)
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- costean — to mine for lodes
- cotinga — any tropical American passerine bird of the family Cotingidae, such as the umbrella bird and the cock-of-the-rock, having a broad slightly hooked bill
- cotland — the grounds that belonged to a cotter and which amounted to around 5 acres
- courant — a courante
- cratons — Plural form of craton.
- crontab — (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
- dontcha — Eye dialect of don't you.
- enactor — One who enacts.
- 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.
- fracton — A collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure; the fractal analogue of a phonon.
- jaconet — a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- nonfact — a thing that is not true or provable
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- occitan — Provençal (def 3).
- octagon — a polygon having eight angles and eight sides.
- octanol — an alcohol containing eight carbon atoms that is mainly used in the manufacture of plastics and perfumes
- octants — Plural form of octant.
- one-act — a short play consisting of one act.
- paction — an agreement or bargain
- patonce — (of a cross) having limbs which broaden from the centre and are floriated at the end
- pontiac — c1720–69, North American Indian, chief of the Ottawa tribe: commander during the Pontiac War 1763–64.
- sacaton — a coarse grass, Sporobolus wrightii, of the southwestern US and Mexico, grown for hay and pasture
- saticon — a high-resolution television camera tube used when high definition is required
- sno-cat — a type of snowmobile
- snowcat — snowmobile.
- tachyon — a hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
- tack on — attach, append
- taction — touch; contact.
- toscana — Italian name of Tuscany.
- wontcha — (eye dialect, informal) Won't you.
- zacaton — a coarse grass that grows in bunches and is found in Mexico and south-western USA, esp the species Sporobolus and Epicampes