8-letter words containing a, s, c, r, i
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- 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.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- caprices — Plural form of caprice.
- caprines — Plural form of caprine.
- car sick — If someone feels car sick, they feel sick as a result of traveling in a car.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carditis — inflammation of the heart
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- carlings — Plural form of carling.
- carlisle — a city in NW England, administrative centre of Cumbria: railway and industrial centre. Pop: 71 773 (2001)
- carnitas — A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
- casimere — cassimere
- cassirer — Ernst (ɛrnst). 1874–1945, German neo-Kantian philosopher. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–29) analyses the symbols that underlie all manifestations, including myths and language, of human culture
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cesarian — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- char siu — barbecued marinated pork
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charisma — You say that someone has charisma when they can attract, influence, and inspire people by their personal qualities.
- charisms — Plural form of charism.
- charlies — a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- chrismal — Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- cimarosa — Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid