8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bearcats — Plural form of bearcat.
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- braccate — (of birds) having feathered legs
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car seat — a seat in an automobile; specif., a portable seat that fastens onto a car's built-in seat and is used for securing a small child
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carcanet — a jewelled collar or necklace
- caretake — to work as a caretaker
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- carteret — John, 1st Earl Granville. 1690–1763, British statesman, diplomat, and orator who led the opposition to Walpole (1730–42), after whose fall he became a leading minister as secretary of state (1742–44)
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.