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7-letter words containing p, t, c

  • chapter — A chapter is one of the parts that a book is divided into. Each chapter has a number, and sometimes a title.
  • chat up — If you chat someone up, usually someone you do not know very well, you talk to them in a friendly way because you are sexually attracted to them.
  • chipset — a highly integrated circuit on the motherboard of a computer that controls many of its data transfer functions
  • chutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
  • clapton — Eric. born 1945, British rock guitarist, noted for his virtuoso style, his work with the Yardbirds (1963–65), Cream (1966–68), and, with Derek and the Dominos, the album Layla (1970); later solo work includes Unplugged (1992)
  • clipart — large collection of simple drawings stored in a computer
  • coapted — to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.
  • cockpit — In an aeroplane or racing car, the cockpit is the part where the pilot or driver sits.
  • compact — Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
  • compart — to divide into parts
  • compast — rounded
  • compete — If you compete in a contest or a game, you take part in it.
  • complot — a plot or conspiracy
  • comport — If you comport yourself in a particular way, you behave in that way.
  • compost — Compost is a mixture of decayed plants and vegetable waste which is added to the soil to help plants grow.
  • compote — Compote is fruit stewed with sugar or in syrup.
  • compter — a prison, esp one in which the inmates are debtors
  • compton — Arthur Holly. 1892–1962, US physicist, noted for his research on X-rays, gamma rays, and nuclear energy: Nobel prize for physics 1927
  • compute — To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
  • concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
  • cookpot — Cooking pot.
  • cooktop — A cooktop is a surface on top of a cooker or set into a work surface, which can be heated in order to cook things on it.
  • coopted — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
  • cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
  • cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
  • copilot — a second or relief pilot of an aircraft
  • copters — Plural form of copter.
  • copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
  • copyist — A copyist copies other people's music or paintings or, in the past, made written copies of documents.
  • corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
  • 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.
  • cowpats — Plural form of cowpat.
  • crampet — a cramp iron
  • 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.
  • cropout — A horse that has spotted coloration but whose sire and dam were both solid-coloured.
  • 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.
  • cryptic — A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
  • cryptid — (cryptozoology) Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.
  • crypto- — Crypto- is added to adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns which refer to people who have hidden beliefs and principles.
  • crypton — a hypothetical particle important in string theory and explanations of dark matter
  • cryptos — Plural form of crypto.
  • culprit — When you are talking about a crime or something wrong that has been done, you can refer to the person who did it as the culprit.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
  • cypriot — Cypriot means belonging or relating to Cyprus, or to its people or culture.
  • deceipt — Obsolete form of deceit.
  • decerpt — (obsolete) Plucked off or away.
  • decrypt — to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key
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