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8-letter words containing a, c, r, o

  • cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
  • caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
  • call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
  • 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
  • cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
  • cameroun — Cameroon
  • camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
  • camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
  • cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
  • canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
  • canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
  • cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
  • canorous — tuneful; melodious
  • canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
  • cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
  • cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
  • capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
  • capework — the use of the cape by the matador
  • capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
  • caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
  • capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
  • capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
  • caproate — a salt of caproic acid
  • car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
  • car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
  • car coat — a short man's coat, designed to be worn when driving a car
  • 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 port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
  • car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
  • 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.
  • caracole — a half turn to the right or left
  • carbinol — methanol
  • carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
  • carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
  • carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
  • carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
  • carborne — travelling by car
  • carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
  • carcajou — wolverine
  • cardamom — Cardamom is a spice. It comes from the seeds of a plant grown in Asia.
  • cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
  • cardioid — a heart-shaped curve generated by a fixed point on a circle as it rolls around another fixed circle of equal radius, a. Equation: r = a(1 – cos φ), where r is the radius vector and φ is the polar angle
  • cardroom — a room for carding wool.
  • careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
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