8-letter words containing a, r, n
- credenda — doctrines to be believed; matters of faith
- credenza — a type of buffet or sideboard
- cremains — A dead person's cremains are their remains after their body has been cremated.
- crenated — Crenate.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- cromalin — a colour proofing system
- cromorna — a reed stop in an organ giving an oboe-like tone
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crossman — Richard (Howard Stafford). 1907–74, British Labour politician. His diaries, published posthumously as the Crossman Papers (1975), revealed details of cabinet discussions
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crumenal — a purse
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- curarine — an alkaloid extracted from curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery. Formula: C19H26ON2
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curranty — full of currants
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cyanuric — of or derived from cyanuric acid.
- cyrenaic — (in the ancient world) of or relating to the city of Cyrene or the territory of Cyrenaica
- czarevna — the daughter of a czar of Russia
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- daintier — Comparative form of dainty.
- dairying — the business of producing, processing, and selling dairy products
- dairyman — a man who works in a dairy or deals in dairy products
- dairymen — Plural form of dairyman.
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- dandered — Simple past tense and past participle of dander.
- dandriff — Archaic spelling of dandruff.
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- dangered — Simple past tense and past participle of danger.
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- daringly — In a daring manner; boldly; courageously; fearlessly; impudently.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.