7-letter words containing n, a, c, e
- knacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knack.
- knacker — a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a knackery or rendering works.
- kneecap — the patella.
- laceman — (dated) A male dealer in lace.
- lachine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec, on the St. Lawrence.
- lactone — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- laennec — René Théophile Hyacinthe [ruh-ney tey-aw-feel ya-sant] /rəˈneɪ teɪ ɔˈfil yaˈsɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1781–1826, French physician who invented the stethoscope.
- lancers — a cavalry soldier armed with a lance.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
- larchen — Of or pertaining to the larch tree.
- latence — Obsolete form of latency.
- latency — the state of being latent.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- leblanc — Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). ?1742–1806, French chemist, who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt
- lecuona — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1963, Cuban composer.
- legnica — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- lockean — an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.
- lucarne — a dormer window.
- lyncean — of or relating to a lynx; lynxlike.
- macedon — Also, Macedon [mas-i-don] /ˈmæs ɪˌdɒn/ (Show IPA). an ancient kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- maclean — Donald. 1913–83, British civil servant, who spied for the Russians: fled to the former Soviet Union (with Guy Burgess) in 1951
- manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- manteca — a town in central California.
- marchen — a German fairy tale or fictional story
- maunche — a conventional representation of a sleeve with a flaring end, used as a charge.
- mayence — French name of Mainz.
- mcallen — a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- mckenna — Siobhan [shuh-vawn,, -von] /ʃəˈvɔn,, -ˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), 1923–86, Irish actress.
- mclaren — Norman, 1914–87, Canadian film director and animator, born in Scotland.
- meccano — a construction set consisting of miniature metal or plastic parts from which mechanical models can be made
- melanic — Pathology. melanotic.
- menaced — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menaces — Plural form of menace.
- menacme — the part of a female's life during which menstruation occurs.
- menorca — Minorca.
- mercian — of or relating to Mercia, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
- mexican — of or relating to Mexico or its people.
- mycenae — an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins.
- nacelle — the enclosed part of an airplane, dirigible, etc., in which the engine is housed or in which cargo or passengers are carried.
- nacrite — a clay mineral of the kaolinite group
- nancies — Plural form of nancy.
- narcose — characterized by stupor; stuporous.
- nascent — beginning to exist or develop: That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
- natchez — a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River.