7-letter words containing i, c
- cartier — Jacques (ʒɑk). 1491–1557, French navigator and explorer in Canada, who discovered the St Lawrence River (1535)
- carting — a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- carving — A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
- casemix — the varied types of patients treated by a hospital or medical unit
- cash in — If you say that someone cashes in on a situation, you are criticizing them for using it to gain an advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way.
- cash-in — redemption, as of mutual-fund shares.
- cashier — A cashier is a person who customers pay money to or get money from in places such as shops or banks.
- cashing — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- casings — Plural form of casing.
- casinos — Plural form of casino.
- casitas — a small crude dwelling forming part of a shantytown inhabited by Mexican laborers in the southwestern U.S.
- casking — a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- caspian — of or relating to the Caspian Sea
- cassias — Plural form of cassia.
- cassina — an evergreen shrub from the Southern US with dark leaves
- cassini — Giovanni Domenico. 1625–1712, French astronomer, born in Italy. He discovered (1675) Cassini's division, the gap that divides Saturn's rings into two parts, and four of Saturn's moons
- cassino — a card game for two to four players in which players pair cards from their hands with others exposed on the table
- cassite — a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.
- cassius — a male given name.
- casspir — an armoured military vehicle
- castile — a former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain: originally part of León, it became an independent kingdom in the 10th century and united with Aragon (1469), the first step in the formation of the Spanish state
- casting — A casting is an object or piece of machinery which has been made by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a container, so that when it hardens it has the required shape.
- castism — Alt form casteism.
- castizo — (historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.
- casuist — a person, esp a theologian, who attempts to resolve moral dilemmas by the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases
- cat rig — the rig of a catboat
- catania — a port in E Sicily, near Mount Etna. Pop: 313 110 (2001)
- catbird — any of several North American songbirds of the family Mimidae (mockingbirds), esp Dumetella carolinensis, whose call resembles the mewing of a cat
- catfish — Catfish are a type of fish that have long thin spines around their mouths.
- catgirl — (chiefly, Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.
- cations — Plural form of cation.
- catkins — Plural form of catkin.
- catlike — like a cat or cat's; noiseless, stealthy, etc.
- catling — a long double-edged surgical knife for amputations
- catmill — An apparatus with several beams protruding from a central rotating pole, used to train fighting dogs by having them chase a cat or other small animal in circles.
- catmint — a Eurasian plant, Nepeta cataria, having spikes of purple-spotted white flowers and scented leaves of which cats are fond: family Lamiaeae (labiates)
- catskin — the skin or fur of a cat
- catsuit — A catsuit is a piece of women's clothing that is made in one piece and fits tightly over the body and legs.
- cattail — any of a genus (Typha) of the cattail family with reedlike leaves and long, brown, fuzzy, cylindrical flower spikes; esp., either of two species (T. latifolia and T. angustifolia) whose long, flat leaves are used in making baskets and matting
- cattier — Comparative form of catty.
- cattily — In a catty manner.
- catting — Present participle of cat.
- cattish — like a cat; feline
- cauline — relating to or growing from a plant stem
- causing — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causist — a person who supports or defends a cause, especially a social cause.
- caustic — Caustic chemical substances are very powerful and can dissolve other substances.
- caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.