7-Letter Words Containing: C,E,R,I,C

• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• twist (a body part) into a strained position

• leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

• a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

• play cricket

• The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.

• An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.

• A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.

• A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.

• A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.

• A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.

• Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.

• One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.

• One who has charge of the work of a companionship.

• An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.

• overly self-confident or self-assertive

• a long narrow depression in a surface

• a long narrow cleft

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the act of choosing or selecting

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• of superior grade

• appealing to refined taste

• of or relating to or made from a ceramic

• an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures

• a sudden desire