8-letter words containing a, c, e, l, r
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- callware — (company) The developers of Phonetastic.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cameleer — a camel-driver
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- car line — trolley line.
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- caramels — Plural form of caramel.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- carceral — relating to a prison
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- careline — a telephone service set up by a company or other organization to provide its customers or clients with information about its products or services
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carolean — characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England: a Carolean costume.
- carolers — Plural form of caroler.
- caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroller — A person who sings carols; a carol singer.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carrells — Plural form of carrell.
- carriole — cariole
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- cavalier — If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
- caviller — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- celeriac — a variety of celery, Apium graveolens rapaceum, with a large turnip-like root, used as a vegetable
- cellared — Simple past tense and past participle of cellar.
- cellarer — a monastic official responsible for food, drink, etc
- cellaret — a case, cabinet, or sideboard with compartments for holding wine bottles
- cellular — Cellular means relating to the cells of animals or plants.
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage
- cerebral — If you describe someone or something as cerebral, you mean that they are intellectual rather than emotional.