7-letter words containing p, a, c, e
- pinnace — a light sailing ship, especially one formerly used in attendance on a larger ship.
- piscean — a person born under the sign of Pisces.
- placage — a thin facing on a building.
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- placode — a local thickening of the endoderm in the embryo, that usually constitutes the primordium of a specific structure or organ.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- plectra — plectrum.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- poached — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- poaches — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- polacre — a three-masted sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- ponceau — a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
- pranced — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- prancer — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- precava — See under vena cava.
- precoat — A precoat is a coating which is put on a filter to test the performance of the filter.
- preface — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prelacy — the office or dignity of a prelate, or high-ranking member of the Christian clergy.
- prepack — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- prerace — of the period before a race
- proface — much good may it do you!
- reclasp — to clasp (something) again or (of two things) to clasp together again
- repatch — to patch again
- replace — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- respace — to change the spacing of
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scalped — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scalpel — a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.
- scalper — the integument of the upper part of the head, usually including the associated subcutaneous structures.
- scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scapose — having scapes; consisting of a scape.
- scapple — to shape (stone, timber, etc) into a plane in a rough or unfinished manner
- scarper — to flee or depart suddenly, especially without having paid one's bills.
- scauper — a graver with a flattened or hollowed blade, used in engraving.
- schappe — to remove sericin from (silk waste) by fermentation.
- scopate — pollen brush.
- scraper — a person or thing that scrapes.
- scrapie — a usually fatal brain disease of sheep, characterized by twitching of the neck and head, grinding of the teeth, and scraping of itching portions of skin against fixed objects with a subsequent loss of wool: thought to be caused by an infectious prion.
- sempach — a village in central Switzerland: Austrians defeated by Swiss 1386.
- shoepac — a heavy, laced, waterproof boot.
- spacier — spaced-out (def 2).
- spackle — a hole-filling compound