8-letter words containing a, n, c, o
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- 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.
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- cacation — (archaic) excretion.
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- 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)
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- califont — a gas water heater
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
- 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
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- 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.
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoeing — Canoeing is the sport of using and racing a canoe.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canoeman — (chiefly, Canada, historical) A voyageur.
- canoness — a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cant dog — cant hook
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- cantonal — Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- canzonas — Plural form of canzona.