7-letter words containing c, r, l
- macular — a spot or blotch, especially on one's skin; macule.
- marcels — Plural form of marcel.
- mcclure — Samuel Sidney, 1857–1949, U.S. editor and publisher, born in Ireland.
- mclaren — Norman, 1914–87, Canadian film director and animator, born in Scotland.
- miracle — an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
- mulcher — a person or thing that mulches.
- nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- oarlock — any of various devices providing a pivot for an oar in rowing, especially a swiveling, crutchlike or ringlike metal device projecting above a gunwale.
- ocellar — pertaining to an ocellus.
- oculars — Plural form of ocular.
- opercle — an operculum, especially the posterior bone of the operculum of a fish.
- oracles — (especially in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
- orchils — Plural form of orchil.
- orcinol — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 7 H 8 O 2 , sweet but unpleasant in taste, that reddens on exposure to air: obtained from many lichens or produced synthetically and used chiefly as a reagent for certain carbohydrates.
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- percale — a closely woven, smooth-finished, plain or printed cotton cloth, used for bed sheets, clothing, etc.
- pilcher — a scabbard for a sword, or a similar outer covering
- pilcorn — a type of oat (Avena nuda) with an edible seed that can be husked easily
- pilcrow — a paragraph mark.
- placard — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- plectra — plectrum.
- plucker — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- policer — a computer device controlling traffic
- porlock — to interrupt or intrude at an awkward moment
- precool — to cool in advance; cool artificially, as meat or fresh produce, before shipping.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- prelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- pricily — in a pricey manner
- prickle — a sharp point.
- prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- purcell — Edward Mills [milz] /mɪlz/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1952.
- pyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- r-color — the auditory quality of an r- sound given to a vowel, resulting from retroflex articulation or bunching of the tongue.
- rachial — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
- rackful — Enough to fill a rack.
- racloir — a tool (originally of flint) used for scraping
- radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- radicel — a minute root; a rootlet.
- radicle — Botany. the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root. a rudimentary root; radicel or rootlet.
- railcar — a passenger-carrying railway vehicle consisting of a single coach with its own power unit
- raploch — a coarse homespun woollen material
- raschel — a type of loosely knitted fabric
- rc file — /R C fi:l/ [Unix: from the startup script "/etc/rc", but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to "run commands"] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up. See also dot file, profile (sense 1).
- re-coil — to coil anew or again
- reblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- recital — a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.