7-letter words containing d, e, c
- corsned — (in Anglo-Saxon times) an ordeal whereby an accused person had to eat a morsel of bread; swallowing it without difficulty indicated innocence, and choking indicated guilt
- couched — a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.
- coughed — Simple past tense and past participle of cough.
- counted — Simple past tense and past participle of count.
- coupled — being one of the partners in a permanent sexual relationship
- coursed — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- courted — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- covered — A covered area is an area that has a roof.
- coveted — You use coveted to describe something that very many people would like to have.
- cowdies — Plural form of cowdie.
- cowdrey — (Michael) Colin, Baron. 1932–2000, English cricketer. He played for Kent and in 114 Test matches (captaining England 27 times)
- cowedly — in a cowed or frightened manner
- cowered — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cowherd — a person employed to tend cattle
- cowhide — Cowhide is leather made from the skin of a cow.
- cowshed — A cowshed is a building where cows are kept or milked.
- cozened — Simple past tense and past participle of cozen.
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
- cracked — An object that is cracked has lines on its surface because it is damaged.
- craddle — Misspelling of cradle.
- cradled — Simple past tense and past participle of cradle.
- cradler — An agricultural worker who uses a cradle (a kind of broad scythe).
- cradles — Plural form of cradle.
- crafted — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cragged — full of crags.
- crammed — If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cranked — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crashed — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- crawled — Simple past tense and past participle of crawl.
- creaked — Simple past tense and past participle of creak.
- creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creased — marked by creases and wrinkles
- created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- credent — believing or believable
- credits — a list of those responsible for the production of a film or television programme
- creedal — any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
- creeded — Simple past tense and past participle of creed.
- creeped — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
- crefeld — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, NW of Cologne.
- crested — A crested bird is a bird that has a crest on its head.
- cribbed — Of or pertaining to a crib, or things in a crib.
- cricked — a sharp, painful spasm of the muscles, as of the neck or back.
- crimped — folded into ridges
- cringed — to shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.
- crisped — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- croaked — Simple past tense and past participle of croak.
- crocked — injured