8-letter words containing a, c, o, s
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canoness — a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- canzonas — Plural form of canzona.
- canzones — Plural form of canzone.
- caodaism — an eclectic religion, originated in Cochin-China in 1926, combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist elements and affected to some extent by Christianity.
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carloads — Plural form of carload.
- carlsson — Ingvar [ing-vahr] /ˈɪŋ vɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Swedish political leader: prime minister 1986–91, 1994–96.
- carneous — fleshy
- caroches — Plural form of caroche.
- carolers — Plural form of caroler.
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- carousal — a merry drinking party
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carryons — Plural form of carryon.
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- 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
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- cassocks — Plural form of cassock.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.