7-letter words containing s, c
- buckish — dandyish; foppish
- bucksaw — a woodcutting saw having its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame
- bucyrus — a city in N central Ohio.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- c shell — (operating system) (csh) The Unix command-line interpreter shell and script language by William Joy, originating from Berkeley Unix. Presumably, csh's C-like syntax was intended to endear it to programmers but sadly it lacks some sh features which are useful for writing shell scripts so you need to know two different syntaxes for every shell construct. A plethora of different shells followed csh, e.g. tcsh, ksh, bash, rc, but sh and csh are the only ones which are provided with most versions of Unix.
- c-sharp — C#
- c-store — convenience store.
- cabanas — Plural form of cabana.
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cablets — Plural form of cablet.
- caboose — On a freight train, a caboose is a small car, usually at the rear, in which the crew travels.
- cáceres — a city in W Spain: held by the Moors (1142–1229). Pop: 87 088 (2003 est)
- cachets — Plural form of cachet.
- cachous — Plural form of cachou.
- cackles — to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
- caddies — Plural form of caddie.
- caddish — like or characteristic of a cad; ungentlemanly
- cadgers — Plural form of cadger.
- cadrans — an instrument which measures the angles of gems and is used during the cutting process
- caesars — Plural form of caesar.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- caftans — Plural form of caftan.
- cagmags — Plural form of cagmag.
- cahoots — partnership; league (esp in the phrases go in cahoots with, go cahoot)
- caimans — Plural form of caiman.
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- caisson — a watertight chamber open at the bottom and containing air under pressure, used to carry out construction work under water
- cajoles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cajole.
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calchas — a soothsayer who assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War
- calends — the first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar
- calices — calix
- caliphs — Plural form of caliph.
- callais — a green stone found as beads and ornaments in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of W Europe
- callers — Plural form of caller.
- callest — Archaic second-person singular form of call.
- callins — a program in which listeners or viewers phone in comments or questions to the host or a person being interviewed.
- callose — a carbohydrate, a polymer of glucose, found in plants, esp in the sieve tubes
- callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
- callows — Plural form of callow.
- calmers — Plural form of calmer.
- calmest — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calpacs — Plural form of calpac.
- calvous — lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald.
- calyces — calyx
- calypso — A calypso is a song about a current subject, sung in a style which originally comes from the West Indies.
- calyxes — Botany. the outermost group of floral parts; the sepals.