8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, o
- nanoacre — (unit, humour) /nan'oh-ay"kr/ A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI integrated circuit. VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one allows for design and fabrication setup costs.
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- neorican — a Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico.
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- novercal — of, like, or befitting a stepmother.
- octeract — (mathematics) A eight-dimensional hypercube.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oracle 7 — (database) Version 7 of the Oracle relational database system software.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ordnance — cannon or artillery.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outreach — to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overarch — to span with or like an arch: A new bridge overarches the river.
- overcall — Cards. a bid higher than the previous bid.
- overcame — simple past tense of overcome.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- overcram — (transitive) To cram too full; to overstuff.
- overpack — to pack or load too much into or onto
- overrack — to strain too much
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- portance — bearing; behavior.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- race off — to entice (a person) away with a view to seduction
- racegoer — One who attends horse races.
- racemoid — racemic
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- ranchero — a rancher.
- reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- recaptor — someone who recaptures something that had been taken
- rectoral — of or relating to God's rule
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- rocaille — Fine Arts. any of the fantastic ornamental, often asymmetrical, combinations characteristic of the Rococo period, consisting of rock, shell, and plant forms combined with artificial forms, esp C -curves.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rockable — (of a chair, crib, etc) able to be rocked
- rockabye — used in lullabies or nursery rhymes to encourage a baby to sleep
- rockface — an exposure of rock in a steep slope or cliff.