8-letter words containing a, e, r
- caressed — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caresser — One who caresses.
- caresses — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caretake — to work as a caretaker
- careware — computer software licensed in exchange for a donation to charity
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- carfares — Plural form of carfare.
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carmaker — a company that manufactures automobiles
- carnegie — Andrew. 1835–1919, US steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts
- carneous — fleshy
- carnifex — an executioner
- caroches — Plural form of caroche.
- carolean — characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England: a Carolean costume.
- carolers — Plural form of caroler.
- caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroller — A person who sings carols; a carol singer.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carrells — Plural form of carrell.
- carreras — José (həʊsˈzeɪ). born 1947, Spanish tenor
- carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
- carriere — Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French painter and lithographer.
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- carriole — cariole
- carshare — to take turns in driving fellow commuters to and from work or friends' children to school and back, so as to avoid the unnecessary use of several underoccupied vehicles
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- carteret — John, 1st Earl Granville. 1690–1763, British statesman, diplomat, and orator who led the opposition to Walpole (1730–42), after whose fall he became a leading minister as secretary of state (1742–44)
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.