7-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- cantine — Alternative form of canteen.
- cantles — Plural form of cantle.
- cantlet — a piece, fragment, or cantle
- cantred — a district comprising a hundred villages
- capelet — a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women
- capette — caponette.
- caplets — Plural form of caplet.
- capotes — Plural form of capote.
- caprate — a salt of capric acid
- captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
- capulet — the family name of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- caquetà — the Japurá River from its source in Colombia to the border with Brazil
- carnate — Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
- carnets — Plural form of carnet.
- carpets — Plural form of carpet.
- carreta — a simple two-wheeled oxcart.
- cartage — the process or cost of carting
- cartels — Plural form of cartel.
- carters — Plural form of carter.
- cartier — Jacques (ʒɑk). 1491–1557, French navigator and explorer in Canada, who discovered the St Lawrence River (1535)
- caseate — to undergo caseation
- caserta — a town in S Italy, in Campania: centre of Garibaldi's campaigns for the unification of Italy (1860); Allied headquarters in World War II. Pop: 75 208 (2001)
- casette — Dated form of cassette.
- caskets — Plural form of casket.
- cassate — (obsolete) To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.
- cassite — a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.
- castell — A human tower formed in festivals in Catalonia.
- casters — Plural form of caster.
- castest — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- casteth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cast.
- castile — a former kingdom comprising most of modern Spain: originally part of León, it became an independent kingdom in the 10th century and united with Aragon (1469), the first step in the formation of the Spanish state
- castled — like a castle in construction; castellated
- castles — Plural form of castle.
- castner — Hamilton Young. 1858–98, US chemist, who devised the Castner process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide
- catched — (obsolete, or, nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of catch.
- catcher — In baseball, the catcher is the player who stands behind the batter. The catcher has a special glove for catching the ball.
- catches — Plural form of catch.
- catechu — a water-soluble astringent resinous substance obtained from any of certain tropical plants, esp the leguminous tree Acacia catechu of S Asia, and used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing
- catenae — Plural form of catena.
- cateran — (formerly) a member of a band of brigands and marauders in the Scottish highlands
- catered — Simple past tense and past participle of cater.
- caterer — Caterers are people or companies that provide food and drink for a place such as an office or for special occasions such as weddings and parties.
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- catface — the deformity of the surface of a tree trunk which has been caused by fire or disease
- cathead — a fitting at the bow of a vessel for securing the anchor when raised
- cathect — to invest mental or emotional energy in
- cathode — A cathode is the negative electrode in a cell such as a battery. Compare anode.
- cathole — one of a pair of holes in the after part of a ship through which hawsers are passed for steadying the ship or heaving astern
- catlike — like a cat or cat's; noiseless, stealthy, etc.