7-letter words containing t, a, c, l
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- playact — to engage in make-believe.
- plectra — plectrum.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- polecat — a European mammal, Mustela putorius, of the weasel family, having a blackish fur and ejecting a fetid fluid when attacked or disturbed. Compare ferret1 (def 1).
- polyact — (of a sea creature) having many tentacles or limb-like protrusions
- proctal — relating to the rectum
- recital — a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
- relatch — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- saltcat — a salty matter for attracting pigeons
- satchel — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- scantle — a small or scant amount
- scantly — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scarlet — a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- scytale — a tool used to transmit secret messages by way of wrapping a strip of leather around a cylinder and writing on it. The leather is then unwound and must be wrapped around a cylinder of the same size to read the message. Used by the Ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans
- selecta — a disc jockey
- splatch — a large splash or splatter
- stoical — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- sulcate — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- tachiol — silver fluoride.
- tacitly — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tactful — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- tactile — of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
- tactual — of or relating to the sense of touch.
- taglock — a matted lock of wool or hair.
- talcose — containing or composed largely of talc.
- telepac — (networking) The Swiss PTT X.25 network.
- thallic — of or containing thallium, especially in the trivalent state.
- topical — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- trachle — an exhausting effort, especially walking or working.
- treacle — contrived or unrestrained sentimentality: a movie plot of the most shameless treacle.
- treacly — contrived or unrestrained sentimentality: a movie plot of the most shameless treacle.
- triclad — a planarian.
- trochal — resembling a wheel.
- truncal — belonging or relating to the trunk, for example of the body or of a tree
- tuckals — An old statistical package still in use on some VM computers.
- tulchan — the skin of a calf placed next to a cow to induce it to give milk
- typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- unlatch — to unfasten (a door, window shutter, etc.) by lifting the latch.
- victual — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- volatic — a creature with wings
- voltaic — Electricity. noting or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, especially when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.
- walcott — Derek, born 1930, West Indian poet and playwright: Nobel prize 1992.
- wildcat — any of several North American felines of the genus Lynx. Compare lynx.