7-letter words containing p, e, c
- coppery — A coppery colour is reddish-brown like copper.
- coppice — A coppice is a small group of trees growing very close to each other.
- coppled — (obsolete) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
- coprime — (mathematics, of two or more positive integers) Having no positive integer factors in common, aside from 1.
- copters — Plural form of copter.
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- corpore — in body; in substance.
- corpses — Plural form of corpse.
- coupage — The blending (or 'cutting') of wine.
- coupled — being one of the partners in a permanent sexual relationship
- coupler — a link or rod transmitting power between two rotating mechanisms or a rotating part and a reciprocating part
- couples — Combine.
- couplet — A couplet is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with each other and are the same length.
- coupure — a trench or palisade made by a besieged force behind a breach in their defences
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- cow pie — a piece of cow dung.
- cowpies — Plural form of cowpie.
- cowpoke — A cowpoke is the same as a cowboy.
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- creeped — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
- creeper — Creepers are plants with long stems that wind themselves around objects.
- creepie — a low stool
- creeple — Obsolete form of cripple.
- creping — a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- crimped — folded into ridges
- crimper — Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- crimple — to crumple, wrinkle, or curl
- crippen — Hawley Harvey, known as Doctor Crippen. 1862–1910, US doctor living in England: executed for poisoning his wife; the first criminal to be apprehended by the use of radiotelegraphy
- cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- crisped — (especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.
- crispen — to make or become crisp
- crisper — a compartment in a refrigerator for storing salads, vegetables, etc, in order to keep them fresh
- cropped — Cropped items of clothing are shorter than normal.
- cropper — a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
- croppie — crappie
- crumped — Simple past tense and past participle of crump.
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- crupper — a strap from the back of a saddle that passes under the horse's tail to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards
- cryppie — (job, cryptography) /krip'ee/ A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements software or hardware for cryptography.
- cup tie — In sports, especially football, a cup tie is a match between two teams who are taking part in a competition in which the prize is a cup.
- cupcake — Cupcakes are small iced cakes for one person.
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head