7-letter words containing a, b, c
- bracing — If you describe something, especially a place, climate, or activity as bracing, you mean that it makes you feel fresh and full of energy.
- bracken — Bracken is a large plant with leaves that are divided into many thin sections. It grows on hills and in woods.
- bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
- branch- — (in zoology) indicating gills
- breccia — a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- brocade — Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- brocard — an elementary legal principle, often expressed in Latin
- brochan — a type of thin porridge
- bucardo — a recently extinct Spanish mountain goat
- buccaro — unglazed pottery.
- buccina — a curved brass horn used by the ancient Roman army
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bucksaw — a woodcutting saw having its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame
- bullace — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated form
- buyback — an agreement to buy something in return, as by a supplier to buy its customer's product
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- byplace — a private place
- caballe — Montserrat (monserˈrat). born 1933, Spanish operatic soprano
- cabanas — Plural form of cabana.
- cabaret — Cabaret is live entertainment consisting of dancing, singing, or comedy acts that are performed in the evening in restaurants or nightclubs.
- cabbage — A cabbage is a round vegetable with white, green or purple leaves that is usually eaten cooked.
- cabbagy — having the characteristics of the cabbage as in odor, taste, or color; cabbagelike.
- cabbala — cabala
- cabbies — Plural form of cabby.
- cabbing — a taxicab.
- cabeiri — Cabiri.
- cabezon — a large food fish, Scorpaenichthys marmoratus, of North American Pacific coastal waters, having greenish flesh: family Cottidae (bullheads and sea scorpions)
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabinda — an exclave of Angola, separated from the rest of the country by part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pop: about 300 000 (2002 est). Area: 7270 sq km (2807 sq miles)
- cabined — a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction: He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.
- cabinet — A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
- cablets — Plural form of cablet.
- cabling — Cabling is used to refer to electrical or electronic cables, or to the process of putting them in a place.
- caboclo — a Brazilian of Indian or mixed Indian and white ancestry.
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- caboose — On a freight train, a caboose is a small car, usually at the rear, in which the crew travels.
- cabover — of or denoting a truck or lorry in which the cab is over the engine
- cabrera — Manuel Estrada [Spanish mahn-wel es-trah-th ah] /Spanish mɑnˈwɛl ɛsˈtrɑ ðɑ/ (Show IPA), Estrada Cabrera, Manuel.
- cabrini — Saint Frances Xavier(1850-1917); U.S. nun, born in Italy: first U.S. citizen canonized: her day is Dec. 22: called Mother Cabrini
- cabrito — the flesh of a young goat, used as food
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- cadbury — George. 1839–1922, British Quaker industrialist and philanthropist. He established, with his brother Richard Cadbury (1835–99), the chocolate-making company Cadbury Brothers and the garden village Bournville, near Birmingham, for their workers
- calabar — a port in SE Nigeria, capital of Cross River state. Pop: 418 000 (2005 est)
- caliban — a brutish or brutalized man
- caliber — the size of a bullet or shell as measured by its diameter
- calibre — The calibre of a person is the quality or standard of their ability or intelligence, especially when this is high.