8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, o
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charneco — a type of sweet wine originating from Portugal
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorer — Alternative spelling of clamourer.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- coachers — Plural form of coacher.
- coadmire — to admire together
- coappear — to appear jointly
- coarsely — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- coarsest — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- coasters — Plural form of coaster.
- cochlear — a spiral-shaped cavity forming a division of the internal ear in humans and in most other mammals.
- cocinera — (in Mexico) a female cook
- cocreate — to create jointly
- colander — A colander is a container in the shape of a bowl with holes in it which you wash or drain food in.
- coleader — a fellow leader
- colinear — collinear.
- collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- collaret — a small collar
- colorate — To apply color to something, make colourful.
- coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
- combater — One who combats.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack