8-letter words containing a, c, t, o, s
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castizos — Plural form of castizo.
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- castrato — (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cattalos — Plural form of cattalo.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautious — Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- chaotics — (literature) A recent branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- chitosan — a polysaccharide produced from chitin
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coarsest — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- coassist — to assist jointly
- coasters — Plural form of coaster.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- coatless — without a coat or coat of arms
- coattest — to attest jointly
- cognates — Plural form of cognate.
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- cohabits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.
- collates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collate.
- comatose — A person who is comatose is in a coma.
- compacts — Plural form of compact.
- congrats — congratulations
- constant — You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there.
- constate — to affirm
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- contacts — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- contessa — an Italian countess
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copycats — Plural form of copycat.
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.