7-letter words containing t, e, a, c
- cheated — to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.
- cheater — A cheater is someone who cheats.
- cheetah — A cheetah is a wild animal that looks like a large cat with black spots on its body. Cheetahs can run very fast.
- chelate — a coordination compound in which a metal atom or ion is bound to a ligand at two or more points on the ligand, so as to form a heterocyclic ring containing a metal atom
- cholate — a cholic acid salt
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- cigaret — a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.
- ciliate — possessing or relating to cilia
- cineast — An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
- cirrate — bearing or resembling cirri
- citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
- citrate — any salt or ester of citric acid. Salts of citric acid are used in beverages and pharmaceuticals
- clacket — Make a series of sharp sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.
- clatter — If you say that people or things clatter somewhere, you mean that they move there noisily.
- clavate — shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost
- cleated — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- climate — The climate of a place is the general weather conditions that are typical of it.
- cluebat — (computing slang) A bat (club) with which someone clueless is (figuratively or in one's imagination) struck.
- coagent — an associate
- coapted — to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.
- coasted — Simple past tense and past participle of coast.
- coaster — A coaster is a small mat that you put underneath a glass or cup to protect the surface of a table.
- coatees — Plural form of coatee.
- coaters — Plural form of coater.
- cocteau — Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1889–1963, French dramatist, novelist, poet, critic, designer, and film director. His works include the novel Les Enfants terribles (1929) and the play La Machine infernale (1934)
- codetta — a short coda
- coenact — to enact jointly
- cognate — Cognate things are related to each other.
- collate — When you collate pieces of information, you gather them all together and examine them.
- come at — If a person or animal comes at you, they move towards you in a threatening way and try to attack you.
- connate — existing in a person or thing from birth; congenital or innate
- cordate — heart-shaped
- coryate — Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- costate — having ribs
- costean — to mine for lodes
- cottage — A cottage is a small house, usually in the country.
- couteau — a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon
- cracket — a low stool, often one with three legs
- crafted — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- crafter — a person who does craftwork
- 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.
- craters — Plural form of crater.
- created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of create.
- creatic — of or relating to flesh or meat
- creatin — Alternative form of creatine.
- creator — The creator of something is the person who made it or invented it.
- creatur — Obsolete spelling of creature.