8-letter words containing a, c, r, l
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- callgirl — Alternative spelling of call girl.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- callware — (company) The developers of Phonetastic.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calvaria — the top part of the skull of vertebrates
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cameleer — a camel-driver
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- caprylic — of or relating to an animal odor: the caprylic odor of a barn.
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- car line — trolley line.
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- caracals — Plural form of caracal.
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- caramels — Plural form of caramel.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbaryl — an organic compound of the carbamate group: used as an insecticide, esp to treat head lice
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- carceral — relating to a prison
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- cardinal — A cardinal is a high-ranking priest in the Catholic church.
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- careless — If you are careless, you do not pay enough attention to what you are doing, and so you make mistakes, or cause harm or damage.
- careline — a telephone service set up by a company or other organization to provide its customers or clients with information about its products or services
- carillon — a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
- caringly — In a caring manner.
- carinula — a small carina.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.