7-letter words containing s, e, c
- beseech — If you beseech someone to do something, you ask them very eagerly and anxiously.
- bespice — to flavour with spices
- bestick — to cover with sharp points; to pierce
- bolices — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- boscage — a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- broches — (in weaving tapestries) a device on which the filling yarn is wound, used as a shuttle in passing through the shed of the loom to deposit the yarn.
- bunches — a hairstyle in which hair is tied into two sections on either side of the head at the back
- 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-store — convenience store.
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- 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.
- cackles — to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
- caddies — Plural form of caddie.
- cadgers — Plural form of cadger.
- 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
- cajoles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cajole.
- calends — the first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar
- calices — calix
- callers — Plural form of caller.
- callest — Archaic second-person singular form of call.
- callose — a carbohydrate, a polymer of glucose, found in plants, esp in the sieve tubes
- calmers — Plural form of calmer.
- calmest — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calyces — calyx
- calyxes — Botany. the outermost group of floral parts; the sepals.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- cameras — Plural form of camera.
- cammers — Plural form of cammer.
- cammies — camouflage.
- camoens — Luis Vaz de (lwiʃ vɑʃ ˈdəː). 1524–80, Portuguese epic poet; author of The Lusiads (1572)
- campers — Plural form of camper.
- campese — David. born 1962, Australian rugby union player: won 101 international caps (1982–1996), scoring 64 tries
- campest — something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
- camrose — a city in central Alberta, in W Canada, near Edmonton.
- canapes — Plural form of canape.
- cancels — Plural form of cancel.
- cancers — Plural form of cancer.
- candies — Plural form of candy.
- candles — Plural form of candle.
- canines — of or like a dog; relating to or characteristic of dogs: canine loyalty.
- cankers — Plural form of canker.
- cankles — Plural form of cankle.
- cannels — an oily, compact coal, burning readily and brightly.
- canners — Plural form of canner.