7-letter words containing c, r, a
- 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)
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
- buccaro — unglazed pottery.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- c quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and charm C = +1. It is more massive than the up, down, and strange quarks.
- c-sharp — C#
- cabaret — Cabaret is live entertainment consisting of dancing, singing, or comedy acts that are performed in the evening in restaurants or nightclubs.
- cabeiri — Cabiri.
- cabover — of or denoting a truck or lorry in which the cab is over the engine
- cabrera — Manuel Estrada [Spanish mahn-wel es-trah-th ah] /Spanish mɑnˈwɛl ɛsˈtrɑ ðɑ/ (Show IPA), Estrada Cabrera, Manuel.
- cabrini — Saint Frances Xavier(1850-1917); U.S. nun, born in Italy: first U.S. citizen canonized: her day is Dec. 22: called Mother Cabrini
- cabrito — the flesh of a young goat, used as food
- cáceres — a city in W Spain: held by the Moors (1142–1229). Pop: 87 088 (2003 est)
- cackler — A person or creature that cackles.
- cadaver — A cadaver is a dead body.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- cadgers — Plural form of cadger.
- cadrans — an instrument which measures the angles of gems and is used during the cutting process
- caesars — Plural form of caesar.
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- caganer — a figure of a squatting defecating person, a traditional character in Catalan Christmas crèche scenes
- cairene — a person born or living in Cairo, Egypt
- cairned — marked by a cairn
- cajoler — A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
- calabar — a port in SE Nigeria, capital of Cross River state. Pop: 418 000 (2005 est)
- calamar — a squid
- caldera — a large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano, formed by the collapse or explosion of the cone
- caldron — a large kettle or boiler
- calgary — a city in Canada, in S Alberta: centre of a large agricultural region; oilfields. Pop: 879 277 (2001)
- caliber — the size of a bullet or shell as measured by its diameter
- calibre — The calibre of a person is the quality or standard of their ability or intelligence, especially when this is high.
- caliper — Calipers are an instrument consisting of two long, thin pieces of metal joined together at one end, and are used to measure the size of things.
- caliver — a light musket introduced in the early 16th century
- callers — Plural form of caller.
- calmers — Plural form of calmer.
- caloric — Caloric means relating to calories.
- calorie — Calories are units used to measure the energy value of food. People who are on diets try to eat food that does not contain many calories.
- caloyer — a monk of the Greek Orthodox Church, esp of the Basilian Order
- caltrap — Archaic form of caltrop.
- caltrop — any tropical or subtropical plant of the zygophyllaceous genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia that have spiny burs or bracts
- calvary — a representation of Christ's crucifixion, usually sculptured and in the open air
- calvert — Sir George, 1st Baron Baltimore. ?1580–1632, English statesman; founder of the colony of Maryland
- camaron — a freshwater crustacean resembling the crayfish
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)