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8-letter words containing a, b, c

  • carbinol — methanol
  • carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
  • carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
  • carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
  • carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
  • carborne — travelling by car
  • carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
  • carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
  • caribees — See under Antilles.
  • caribous — Plural form of caribou.
  • carlsbad — a town in S California.
  • carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
  • cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
  • casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
  • cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
  • case bay — (in a roof or floor) the section between two principals.
  • casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
  • cash bar — A cash bar is a bar at a party or similar event where guests can buy drinks.
  • cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
  • cashable — Able to be converted into cash.
  • cashback — a discount offered in return for immediate payment
  • cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
  • castable — able to be cast; suitable for casting
  • catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
  • catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
  • catboats — Plural form of catboat.
  • catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
  • causable — that can be caused
  • cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
  • celibacy — Celibacy is the state of being celibate.
  • celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
  • centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
  • cerebral — If you describe someone or something as cerebral, you mean that they are intellectual rather than emotional.
  • chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
  • chabrier — (Alexis) Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). 1841–94, French composer; noted esp for the orchestral rhapsody España (1883)
  • chad box — (hardware)   (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
  • chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
  • chambers — a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
  • chambery — a city in SE France, in the Alps: skiing centre; former capital of the duchy of Savoy. Pop: 59 188 (2006)
  • chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
  • chambray — a smooth light fabric of cotton, linen, etc, with white weft and a coloured warp
  • chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
  • chasible — Alternative form of chasuble.
  • chasuble — a long sleeveless outer vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass
  • chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
  • chibchan — a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
  • chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
  • choliamb — an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot
  • choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
  • chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
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