7-letter words containing c, a, p
- compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
- compast — rounded
- compear — to appear in court
- cop car — a police car
- copaiba — a transparent yellowish viscous oleoresin obtained from certain tropical South American trees of the leguminous genus Copaifera: used in varnishes and ointments
- copaiva — Alternative form of copaiba.
- copehan — Wintun.
- copiapo — a city in N Chile.
- copland — Aaron. 1900–90, US composer of orchestral and chamber music, ballets, and film music
- coppola — Francis Ford. born 1939, US film director. His films include The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tucker (1988), and The Rainmaker (1997)
- copulae — Plural form of copula.
- copular — (grammar) Being or relating to a copula.
- copulas — Plural form of copula.
- copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
- corpora — Corpora is a plural of corpus.
- cosplay — a recreational activity in which people interact with one another while dressed as fictional characters
- coupage — The blending (or 'cutting') of wine.
- cowpats — Plural form of cowpat.
- cpa-acp — Canadian Police Association - Association Canadienne Policiers
- crackup — a cracking up
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- cramper — a spiked metal plate used as a brace for the feet in throwing the stone
- crampet — a cramp iron
- crampon — Crampons are metal plates with spikes underneath which mountain climbers fasten to the bottom of their boots, especially when there is snow or ice, in order to make climbing easier.
- crap up — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- craping — to cover, clothe, or drape with crepe.
- crapola — rubbish; nonsense
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crapper — a toilet
- crappie — either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- 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.
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- cupcake — Cupcakes are small iced cakes for one person.
- cupgall — a cup-shaped gall found on oak leaves
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head
- cupolar — relating to or resembling a cupola
- cupolas — Plural form of cupola.
- cuprate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several non-stoichiometric compounds, of general formula XYCumOn, many of which are superconductors.
- cupular — shaped like a cupule.
- cupulas — Plural form of cupula.
- cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
- cyprian — of or relating to Cyprus
- cypsela — the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath
- da capo — to be repeated (in whole or part) from the beginning
- daypack — a small rucksack
- decamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decamp.
- decapod — any crustacean of the mostly marine order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking limbs: includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish
- dectape — (hardware, storage) A reel of magnetic tape about 4 inches in diameter and one inch wide. Unlike today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allowed random access to the data, and therefore could be used to support file systems and even for swapping (this was generally done purely for hack value, as they were far too slow for practical use). DECtape was a variant on LINCtape. In their heyday DECtapes were used in pretty much the same ways one would now use a floppy disk: as a small, portable way to save and transport files and programs.