8-letter words containing a, c, r, o
- airlocks — Plural form of airlock.
- alachlor — a herbicide in the chloroacetanilide family
- albacore — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- alcorcon — city in central Spain, near Madrid: pop. 140,000
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- allocher — any of the variant forms of a chereme.
- alt-rock — a genre of rock music regarded by its practitioners and fans as being outside the mainstream
- amelcorn — a variety of wheat used to produce starch
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
- amphoric — resembling the sound produced by blowing into a bottle. Amphoric breath sounds are heard through a stethoscope placed over a cavity in the lung
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anarcho- — Anarcho- combines with nouns and adjectives to form words indicating that something is both anarchistic and the other thing that is mentioned.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- apocarpy — the quality of being apocarpous
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- archaeo- — indicating ancient or primitive time or condition
- archaeon — A microorganism, physically resembling a bacterium, of the kingdom Archaea.
- archetto — a tool, consisting of a bow strung with wire, for trimming excess material from a piece being modeled.
- arciform — shaped like an arch
- arcology — a type of architecture concerned with the design of enormous vertical cities that maximize population density and so preserve the surrounding countryside
- armlocks — Plural form of armlock.
- armonica — a glass harmonica, being a musical instrument of the 18th century consisting of a set of glass bowls of graduated pitches, played by rubbing the fingers over the moistened rims or by a keyboard mechanism
- armorica — an ancient name for Brittany
- aromatic — An aromatic plant or food has a strong, pleasant smell of herbs or spices.
- arriccio — (formerly in fresco painting) a second coat of plaster, somewhat finer than the first coat, applied over the entire surface and on which the drawing for the fresco is done.
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- art rock — a type of rock music, often with poetic lyrics, characterized by sophisticated harmonic, dynamic, and technical complexity based on forms derived from classical music and requiring performers of considerable training and skill.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- ascocarp — (in some ascomycetous fungi) a globular structure containing the asci
- ascorbic — Of or pertaining to ascorbic acid or its derivatives.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attercop — a spider
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.