8-letter words containing a, n, c, r
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- 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
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cam ranh — a port in SE Vietnam: large natural harbour, used at times as a naval base by French, Japanese, US, and Russian forces successively. Pop: 147 000 (2006 est)
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- 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
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- cancered — affected by cancer
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- car line — trolley line.
- caragana — any of various shrubs and small trees with golden flowers of the genus Caragana and of the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and east Europe and widely planted in North America as windbreaks
- carageen — carrageen
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbarns — Plural form of carbarn.
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.