8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- 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–
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.
- clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
- clatters — Plural form of clatter.
- clattery — (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- clearcut — Alternative spelling of clear cut.
- clearest — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- coarsest — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- coasters — Plural form of coaster.
- cocreate — to create jointly
- 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.
- contrate — (of gears, esp the gears of watches) having teeth set at a right angle to the axis
- coparent — a fellow parent
- corelate — to correlate.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- corotate — to rotate in conjunction with something else that is rotating
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crassest — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- cratches — a crib for fodder; manger.
- crateful — (informal) As much as a crate would hold.
- cratered — If the surface of something is cratered, it has many craters in it.
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creatify — To edit, rewrite, and/or revise standard text using creative writing tools and techniques.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- creators — Plural form of creator.
- creatrix — (rare) A female creator.
- creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
- cremated — Simple past tense and past participle of cremate.