8-letter words containing a, s, c
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- contacts — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- contessa — an Italian countess
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- coos bay — a town in SW Oregon.
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
- copycats — Plural form of copycat.
- coquinas — Plural form of coquina.
- coracles — Plural form of coracle.
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- cordials — Plural form of cordial.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corridas — Plural form of corrida.
- corsages — Plural form of corsage.
- corsairs — Plural form of corsair.
- corsican — of or relating to Corsica or its inhabitants
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- cosmical — of or relating to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
- cossacks — (especially in czarist Russia) a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen.
- costable — For which a monetary cost may be assessed.
- costally — in a costal manner
- costards — Plural form of costard.
- costmary — a herbaceous plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, native to Asia. Its fragrant leaves were used as a seasoning and to flavour ale: family Asteraceae (composites)
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- cot case — a person confined to bed through illness
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- cottages — Plural form of cottage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crabbish — Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- crackers — crazy; insane
- crackies — by cracky.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- cragsman — a rock climber
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.