7-letter words containing n, o, c, t
- contras — (often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- contree — Archaic spelling of country.
- control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- contund — to pummel or bruise (a person)
- contuse — to injure (the body) without breaking the skin; bruise
- convect — to circulate (hot air) by convection
- convent — A convent is a building in which a community of nuns live.
- convert — If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
- convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
- coolant — Coolant is a liquid used to keep a machine or engine cool while it is operating.
- coontie — an evergreen plant, Zamia floridana of S Florida, related to the cycads and having large dark green leathery leaves: family Zamiaceae
- coranto — courante
- corinth — a port in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese: the modern town is near the site of the ancient city, the largest and richest of the city-states after Athens. Pop (municipality): 36 991 (2001)
- cornets — Plural form of cornet.
- cornett — a musical instrument consisting of a straight or curved tube of wood or ivory having finger holes like a recorder and a cup-shaped mouthpiece like a trumpet
- cornist — a person who plays the horn
- cornute — having or resembling cornua; hornlike
- cornuto — a cuckold
- coronet — A coronet is a small crown.
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- cortona — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany: Roman and Etruscan remains, 15th-century cathedral. Pop: 22 048 (2001)
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- costean — to mine for lodes
- costing — A costing is an estimate of all the costs involved in a project or a business venture.
- costner — Kevin. born 1955, US film actor: his films include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1990), Dances with Wolves (1990; also directed), JFK (1991), Waterworld (1995), Open Range (2003), and the TV mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
- cothurn — A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
- cotinga — any tropical American passerine bird of the family Cotingidae, such as the umbrella bird and the cock-of-the-rock, having a broad slightly hooked bill
- cotland — the grounds that belonged to a cotter and which amounted to around 5 acres
- cotonou — the chief port and official capital of Benin, on the Bight of Benin. Pop: 891 000 (2005 est)
- cottons — Plural form of cotton.
- cottony — of or like cotton; downy; fluffy
- couldnt — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of couldn't.
- counted — Simple past tense and past participle of count.
- counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
- country — A country is one of the political units which the world is divided into, covering a particular area of land.
- courant — a courante
- cowtown — a small town in a cattle-raising area
- cratons — Plural form of craton.
- creston — a ridge on a hill that curves downwards at the ends
- cretons — a spread of shredded pork cooked with onions in pork fat
- crontab — (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
- crotone — a town in S Italy, on the coast of Calabria: founded in about 700 bc by the Achaeans; chemical works and zinc-smelting. Pop: 60 010 (2001)
- crotons — Plural form of croton.
- crottin — a type of French goat cheese.
- crouton — Croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread that are added to soup just before you eat it.
- crownet — a coronet.
- crypton — a hypothetical particle important in string theory and explanations of dark matter
- ctenoid — toothed like a comb, as the scales of perches
- cthonic — Alternative spelling of chthonic.
- cutdown — a decrease or reduction in the number, size, or incidence of anything