8-letter words containing a, s, c
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- branches — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- brassica — Brassicas are vegetables such as cabbages, broccoli and turnips.
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- c (ansi) — ANSI C
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabbages — Plural form of cabbage.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caecitis — an inflammation of the caecum
- caesarea — an ancient port in NW Israel, capital of Roman Palestine: founded by Herod the Great
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- cageless — Without a cage.
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- caitiffs — Plural form of caitiff.