7-letter words containing ai
- brassai — real name Gyula Halész. 1899–1984, French photographer, artist, and writer, born in Hungary: noted for his photographs of Paris by night
- britain — Great Britain.
- cacaine — (archaic, chemistry) The essential principle of cacao, now called theobromine.
- caimans — Plural form of caiman.
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- cainite — a member of a Gnostic sect that exalted Cain and regarded the God of the Old Testament as responsible for evil.
- cairene — a person born or living in Cairo, Egypt
- cairned — marked by a cairn
- caisson — a watertight chamber open at the bottom and containing air under pressure, used to carry out construction work under water
- caitiff — a cowardly or base person
- caitive — a captive
- caitlin — a female given name, Irish form of Cathleen, Kathleen.
- callais — a green stone found as beads and ornaments in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of W Europe
- calpain — any of various enzymes in mammals and other organisms that are involved in the proteolysis of endogenous proteins and are regulated by the concentration of calcium ions
- camaieu — a cameo
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- captain — In the army, navy, and some other armed forces, a captain is an officer of middle rank.
- cattail — any of a genus (Typha) of the cattail family with reedlike leaves and long, brown, fuzzy, cylindrical flower spikes; esp., either of two species (T. latifolia and T. angustifolia) whose long, flat leaves are used in making baskets and matting
- cc:mail — (tool, product) Commercial electronic mail software by Lotus Corporation for Microsoft Windows.
- certain — If you are certain about something, you firmly believe it is true and have no doubt about it. If you are not certain about something, you do not have definite knowledge about it.
- cesaire — Aimé Fernand [e-mey fer-nahn] /ɛˈmeɪ fɛrˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1913–2008, West Indian poet, playwright, and politician.
- chained — If you say that someone is chained to a person or a situation, you are emphasizing that there are reasons why they cannot leave that person or situation, even though you think they might like to.
- chaired — a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- chaises — Plural form of chaise.
- chaitya — a Buddhist shrine in India; stupa.
- charpai — a light bedstead used in India, consisting of a web of rope or tape netting.
- chennai — a port in SE India, capital of Tamil Nadu, on the Bay of Bengal: founded in 1639 by the English East India Company as Fort St George; traditional burial place of St Thomas; university (1857). Pop: 4 216 268 (2001)
- cimaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- claimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- claimer — a person who makes a claim; claimant
- clairty — Misspelling of clarity.
- clarain — one of the four major lithotypes of banded coal
- cocaine — Cocaine is a powerful drug which some people take for pleasure, but which they can become addicted to.
- cochair — to chair jointly
- conrail — a government-supported corporation that combined six bankrupt railroads to provide freight and commuter service in 17 states from Boston to St. Louis.
- contain — If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
- 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.
- corsair — a pirate
- costain — Thomas Bertram, 1885–1965, U.S. novelist, historian, and editor, born in Canada.
- cowtail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
- craigie — Sir William A(lexander). 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901–33), and of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (1938–44)
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- cymaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- dadaism — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- dadaist — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- daikons — Plural form of daikon.
- dailies — of, done, occurring, or issued each day or each weekday: daily attendance; a daily newspaper.