8-letter words containing a, b, c
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calabash — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- calabaza — any of several species of gourd of the genus Cucurbita
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- callable — (of a security) subject to redemption before maturity
- callback — A callback is an occasion when you are asked to return for a second interview for a job, or a second audition for a part in a show.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambiata — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- cambogia — gamboge (def 1).
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannabin — a greenish-black poisonous resin obtained from the Indian hemp plant
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- cannibal — Cannibals are people who eat the flesh of other human beings.
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
- car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
- car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbarns — Plural form of carbarn.
- carbaryl — an organic compound of the carbamate group: used as an insecticide, esp to treat head lice
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.