7-letter words containing c
- and co. — You use and co. after someone's name to mean the group of people associated with that person.
- anelace — a short sword having a double-edged blade tapering sharply to a point: worn by civilians from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
- anergic — Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- angelic — You can describe someone as angelic if they are, or seem to be, very good, kind, and gentle.
- anglice — in English
- animacy — the state of being alive and animate
- anionic — a negatively charged ion, as one attracted to the anode in electrolysis.
- annicut — a dam in India constructed in order to supply waterways leading from it
- anoetic — relating to anoesis
- anosmic — absence or loss of the sense of smell.
- ant cow — an insect, esp an aphid, that excretes a sweet honey-like substance that is collected and eaten by ants
- antacid — that neutralizes acids; counteracting acidity
- anteact — A preceding act.
- antical — (of the position of plant parts) in front of or above another part; anterior
- anticar — opposing cars
- anticke — antic
- anticks — Plural form of antick.
- anticly — ludicrously or grotesquely
- anticum — pronaos.
- antioch — a city in S Turkey, on the Orontes River: ancient commercial centre and capital of Syria (300–64 bc); early centre of Christianity. Pop: 155 000 (2005 est)
- anycast — (networking) A network addressing and routing scheme whereby data is routed to the nearest or best destination as viewed by the routing topology.
- apaches — a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
- apercus — a hasty glance; a glimpse.
- aphakic — lack or loss of the lens of the eye.
- aphasic — pertaining to or affected with aphasia.
- aphetic — pertaining to or due to aphesis.
- aphonic — affected with aphonia
- aphotic — characterized by or growing in the absence of light
- apician — of or relating to an epicure
- apnoeic — of or relating to apnoea
- apocarp — an apocarpous gynoecium or fruit
- apocope — omission of the final sound or sounds of a word
- apogeic — of or relating to an apogee
- apomict — an organism, esp a plant, produced by apomixis
- apraxic — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized by an inability to perform purposeful movements, but not accompanied by a loss of sensory function or paralysis.
- apricot — An apricot is a small, soft, round fruit with yellowish-orange flesh and a stone inside.
- aprotic — (of solvents) neither accepting nor donating hydrogen ions
- aptotic — uninflected
- aqcuire — Misspelling of acquire.
- aquatic — An aquatic animal or plant lives or grows on or in water.
- arabica — a high-quality coffee bean obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- aracaju — a port in E Brazil, capital of Sergipe state. Pop: 701 000 (2005 est)
- aracari — any of several small toucans of the genus Pteroglossus, having strongly serrate bills and yellow underparts marked with black and red.
- arachis — any of various plants native to South America and belonging to the genus Arachis of the family Fabaceae, the most famous of which is the peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
- arachne — a maiden changed into a spider for having presumptuously challenged Athena to a weaving contest
- aramaic — an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Persian empire
- arcaded — decorated with an arcade: an arcaded entryway.
- arcades — Plural form of arcade.
- arcadia — a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles)
- arcadic — of or relating to the Arcadians or to their dialect of Ancient Greek