7-letter words containing n, a, c
- carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
- carrion — Carrion is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
- carryon — Alternative spelling of carry-on.
- carting — a heavy two-wheeled vehicle, commonly without springs, drawn by mules, oxen, or the like, used for the conveyance of heavy goods.
- cartman — (dated) A person who transports goods or people by horse and cart; a carman.
- cartons — Plural form of carton.
- cartoon — A cartoon is a humorous drawing or series of drawings in a newspaper or magazine.
- carving — A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
- caseman — a person who sets and corrects type from which books are printed
- caserns — Plural form of casern.
- cash in — If you say that someone cashes in on a situation, you are criticizing them for using it to gain an advantage, often in an unfair or dishonest way.
- cash-in — redemption, as of mutual-fund shares.
- cashing — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- casings — Plural form of casing.
- casinos — Plural form of casino.
- casking — a container made and shaped like a barrel, especially one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.
- caspian — of or relating to the Caspian Sea
- cassena — dahoon.
- cassina — an evergreen shrub from the Southern US with dark leaves
- cassini — Giovanni Domenico. 1625–1712, French astronomer, born in Italy. He discovered (1675) Cassini's division, the gap that divides Saturn's rings into two parts, and four of Saturn's moons
- cassino — a card game for two to four players in which players pair cards from their hands with others exposed on the table
- cassone — a highly-decorated, Italian dowry chest
- cast on — to form (the first row of stitches) in knitting and weaving
- casting — A casting is an object or piece of machinery which has been made by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a container, so that when it hardens it has the required shape.
- castner — Hamilton Young. 1858–98, US chemist, who devised the Castner process for extracting sodium from sodium hydroxide
- catalan — Something that is Catalan belongs or relates to Catalonia, its people, or its language. Catalonia is a region of Spain.
- catania — a port in E Sicily, near Mount Etna. Pop: 313 110 (2001)
- catapan — a provincial governor in the Byzantine Empire
- catenae — Plural form of catena.
- cateran — (formerly) a member of a band of brigands and marauders in the Scottish highlands
- cations — Plural form of cation.
- catjang — a thickly-branched tropical shrub native to Africa
- catkins — Plural form of catkin.
- catling — a long double-edged surgical knife for amputations
- catmint — a Eurasian plant, Nepeta cataria, having spikes of purple-spotted white flowers and scented leaves of which cats are fond: family Lamiaeae (labiates)
- catnaps — Plural form of catnap.
- catskin — the skin or fur of a cat
- catting — Present participle of cat.
- cauline — relating to or growing from a plant stem
- causing — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
- cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
- cave-in — a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
- caveman — Cavemen were people in prehistoric times who lived mainly in caves.
- cavemen — Plural form of caveman.
- caverns — Plural form of cavern.
- cawings — Plural form of cawing.
- cayenne — the capital of French Guiana, on an island at the mouth of the Cayenne River: French penal settlement from 1854 to 1938. Pop: 57 229 (2011)
- caymans — Plural form of cayman.
- ceasing — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.