8-letter words containing a, c, r, l
- auricula — a widely cultivated alpine primrose, Primula auricula, with leaves shaped like a bear's ear
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- bachelor — A bachelor is a man who has never married.
- bacillar — (biology) Shaped like a rod or staff.
- balancer — a person or thing that balances
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- balearic — of or relating to the Balearic Islands
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- beclamor — clamour excessively
- berascal — to accuse someone of being a rascal
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- biracial — for, representing, or including members of two races, esp White and Black
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- brachial — of or relating to the arm or to an armlike part or structure
- braciola — (in Italian cooking) a thin slice of pan-fried beef
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brucella — any of a genus of nonmotile bacteria that cause brucellosis
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- cagliari — a port in Italy, the capital of Sardinia, on the S coast. Pop: 164 249 (2001)
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calamari — Calamari is squid that has been prepared for eating, usually by cutting it into rings, dipping it in a mixture of flour, milk and eggs, and frying it.
- calamary — a squid: so called from its pen-shaped skeleton
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calcspar — calcite
- calcular — relating to calculus
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out