7-letter words containing p, r, e, c
- 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
- 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.
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cuprite — a red secondary mineral consisting of cuprous oxide in cubic crystalline form: a source of copper. Formula: Cu2O
- cy pres — the doctrine that the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as closely as practicable when literal compliance is impossible
- cyperus — Any sedge of genus Cyperus.
- cyphers — Plural form of cypher.
- cypress — A cypress or a cypress tree is a type of conifer.
- cyprine — a type of silicate mineral
- decerpt — (obsolete) Plucked off or away.
- decrypt — to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key
- discerp — To tear into pieces; to rend.
- earpick — an implement for picking at the ear and removing earwax
- ectropy — (thermodynamics) The overall increase in the organization of a system.
- empiric — A person who, in medicine or other branches of science, relies solely on observation and experiment.
- encrypt — Convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
- epacrid — a type of heath-like plant of the family Epacridaceae
- epacris — (botany) Any of the genus Epacris of shrubs.
- eparchs — Plural form of eparch.
- eparchy — A province of the Orthodox Church.
- epeiric — in, of, or relating to a continent