8-letter words containing a, s, c, e, r
- gearcase — a protective casing for the gear mechanism of a vehicle or piece of machinery
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- knackers — Plural form of knacker.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- macarise — congratulate
- marchers — Plural form of marcher.
- marchesa — an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
- marchese — an Italian nobleman, equivalent in rank to a marquis.
- massacer — Archaic form of massacre.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- mcmaster — John Bach, 1852–1932, U.S. historian and educator.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- overacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overact.
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- pancreas — a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- racecars — Plural form of racecar.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- rascasse — any of several scorpionfishes, as Scorpaena scrofa or S. porcus, of the Mediterranean Sea, used in making bouillabaisse.