7-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a
- chatter — If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
- chayote — a tropical American cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Sechium edule, that has edible pear-shaped fruit enclosing a single enormous seed
- 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.
- cythera — a Greek island off the SE coast of the Peloponnese: in ancient times a centre of the worship of Aphrodite. Pop: 3354 (2001). Area: about 285 sq km (110 sq miles)
- eckhart — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), ("Meister Eckhart") c1260–1327? Dominican theologian and preacher: founder of German mysticism.
- ecthyma — a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.
- enchant — Fill (someone) with great delight; charm.
- escheat — The reversion of property to the state, or (in feudal law) to a lord, on the owner’s dying without legal heirs.
- etchant — An acid or corrosive chemical used in etching; a mordant.
- ethical — Of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
- ethnica — Plural form of ethnicon.
- gertcha — get out of here!
- hatched — Simple past tense and past participle of hatch.
- hatchel — hackle1 (def 5).
- hatcher — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- hatches — Plural form of hatch.
- hatchet — a small, short-handled ax having the end of the head opposite the blade in the form of a hammer, made to be used with one hand.
- hatchie — a river in N Mississippi and W Tennessee, flowing NW to the Mississippi River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- hectare — a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. Abbreviation: ha.
- hellcat — a bad-tempered, spiteful, woman; shrew.
- hematic — of or relating to blood; hemic.
- hepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- hepcats — Plural form of hepcat.
- hotcake — A pancake.
- huastec — a member of an Indian people of Mexico.
- icebath — Alternative spelling of ice bath.
- lachute — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- lacketh — Archaic third-person singular form of lack.
- latched — 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.
- latches — 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.
- latchet — a strap or lace used to fasten a shoe.
- letchya — Alt form letcha.
- macbeth — died 1057, king of Scotland 1040–57.
- machete — a large heavy knife used especially in Latin-American countries in cutting sugarcane and clearing underbrush and as a weapon.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- matched — Simple past tense and past participle of match.
- matcher — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- matches — Plural form of match.
- matchet — Machete.
- natchez — a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.
- nethack — (games) /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called "hack". The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organised by Mike Stephenson. Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ootheca — a case or capsule containing eggs, as that of certain gastropods and insects.
- patched — repaired with patches; covered with patches
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.