8-letter words containing a, l, n, c
- balanced — A balanced report, book, or other document takes into account all the different opinions on something and presents information in a fair and reasonable way.
- balancer — a person or thing that balances
- balances — Plural form of balance.
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- ballance — John. 1839–93, New Zealand statesman, born in Northern Ireland: prime minister of New Zealand (1891–93)
- barnacle — Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats.
- billycan — Also called billy club. a police officer's club or baton.
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- bioclean — free from harmful bacteria
- blackfin — a type of tuna, Thunnus atlanticus
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- c++linda — (language)
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- 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)
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- calamine — Calamine is a liquid that you can put on your skin when it is sore or itchy.
- calamint — any aromatic Eurasian plant of the genus Satureja (or Calamintha), having clusters of purple or pink flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- calanthe — any of various orchids of the genus Calanthe of the family Orchidaceae, found in tropical areas and having long-lasting yellow, white, or pink flowers
- calcanei — Plural form of calcaneus.
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendal — relating to the calends
- 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
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- califont — a gas water heater
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calycine — relating to, belonging to, or resembling a calyx
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
- camelina — The plant Camelina sativa, sometimes cultivated for oilseed.
- cameline — a material made from camel hair
- canaille — the masses; mob; rabble
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canalize — to provide with or convert into a canal or canals