8-letter words containing a, r, e, c, o
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- 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)
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- 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
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- 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.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- carborne — travelling by car
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carneous — fleshy
- 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.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carriole — cariole