7-letter words containing a, c
- antioch — a city in S Turkey, on the Orontes River: ancient commercial centre and capital of Syria (300–64 bc); early centre of Christianity. Pop: 155 000 (2005 est)
- anycast — (networking) A network addressing and routing scheme whereby data is routed to the nearest or best destination as viewed by the routing topology.
- apaches — a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
- apercus — a hasty glance; a glimpse.
- aphakic — lack or loss of the lens of the eye.
- aphasic — pertaining to or affected with aphasia.
- aphetic — pertaining to or due to aphesis.
- aphonic — affected with aphonia
- aphotic — characterized by or growing in the absence of light
- apician — of or relating to an epicure
- apnoeic — of or relating to apnoea
- apocarp — an apocarpous gynoecium or fruit
- apocope — omission of the final sound or sounds of a word
- apogeic — of or relating to an apogee
- apomict — an organism, esp a plant, produced by apomixis
- apraxic — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized by an inability to perform purposeful movements, but not accompanied by a loss of sensory function or paralysis.
- apricot — An apricot is a small, soft, round fruit with yellowish-orange flesh and a stone inside.
- aprotic — (of solvents) neither accepting nor donating hydrogen ions
- aptotic — uninflected
- aqcuire — Misspelling of acquire.
- aquatic — An aquatic animal or plant lives or grows on or in water.
- arabica — a high-quality coffee bean obtained from the tree Coffea arabica
- aracaju — a port in E Brazil, capital of Sergipe state. Pop: 701 000 (2005 est)
- aracari — any of several small toucans of the genus Pteroglossus, having strongly serrate bills and yellow underparts marked with black and red.
- arachis — any of various plants native to South America and belonging to the genus Arachis of the family Fabaceae, the most famous of which is the peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
- arachne — a maiden changed into a spider for having presumptuously challenged Athena to a weaving contest
- aramaic — an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Persian empire
- arcaded — decorated with an arcade: an arcaded entryway.
- arcades — Plural form of arcade.
- arcadia — a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles)
- arcadic — of or relating to the Arcadians or to their dialect of Ancient Greek
- arcanum — a profound secret or mystery known only to initiates
- arccoth — (mathematics) The area hyberbolic cotangent function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cotangent function.
- arcella — a genus of freshwater, ameboid protozoa that secrete a hard, umbrellalike shell having a single opening through which the pseudopodia extend.
- arcform — noting a type of cargo-ship construction in which the sides have the form of arcs so drawn that the greatest breadth is at load waterline, the purpose being to promote the flow of water to the propeller with an easy bilge and without loss of capacity.
- archaea — an order of prokaryotic microorganisms
- archaic — Archaic means extremely old or extremely old-fashioned.
- archbsd — (operating system) 4.4 BSD-Lite for the Acorn Archimedes.
- archean — designating or of the geologic eon characterized by the development of the first igneous and metamorphic rocks and the first marine microorganisms; Precambrian, esp. early Precambrian
- archeo- — archaeo-
- archers — Plural form of archer.
- archery — Archery is a sport in which people shoot arrows at a target using a bow.
- archest — Superlative form of arch.
- archeus — the spirit or force which Paracelsians believed dwelt in, and presided over, all living things
- archfoe — Archenemy.
- archine — a Russian unit of length equal to about 71 cm
- arching — forming an arch
- archit. — architecture
- archive — The archive or archives are a collection of documents and records that contain historical information. You can also use archives to refer to the place where archives are stored.
- archlet — a small arch