8-letter words containing a, t, r, c
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- baccarat — a card game in which two or more punters gamble against the banker
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- bar cart — a small table on wheels, outfitted for serving drinks; a portable bar.
- bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
- bearcats — Plural form of bearcat.
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- braccate — (of birds) having feathered legs
- bracelet — A bracelet is a chain or band, usually made of metal, which you wear around your wrist as jewellery.
- 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.
- bractlet — a small or secondary bract at the base of a flower
- bratchet — a brach or brachet hound
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- brickbat — Brickbats are very critical or insulting remarks which are made in public about someone or something.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- 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
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.