8-letter words containing a, c, o, u
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- huaracho — huarache.
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- macroura — Macruran.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccan — of or relating to a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 2 223 000 (1999 est). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- muchacho — (in Spanish-speaking regions) a young man.
- mucoidal — Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoid.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nuoc mam — a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- occlusal — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- oceanaut — aquanaut.
- octavius — a male given name.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oracular — of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle: an oracular response.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- ouachita — a river flowing SE from W Arkansas through NE Louisiana to the Red River. 605 miles (975 km) long.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).
- outcalls — Plural form of outcall.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outcaste — (in India) a person who has left or been expelled from his or her caste.
- outcasts — Plural form of outcast.
- outcatch — to catch more than
- outcavil — to exceed in cavilling
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outcheat — to exceed in cheating
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- outcoach — to exceed in coaching
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than