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8-letter words containing a, u, s, o

  • caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
  • caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
  • cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
  • callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
  • canorous — tuneful; melodious
  • captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
  • caribous — Plural form of caribou.
  • carneous — fleshy
  • carousal — a merry drinking party
  • caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
  • carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
  • carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
  • carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
  • casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
  • case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
  • cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
  • cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
  • cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
  • cathouse — a house of prostitution
  • cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
  • cautious — Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.
  • chausson — Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1855–99, French composer.
  • choragus — the leader of a chorus
  • chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
  • clamours — Plural form of clamour.
  • coaldust — fine particles of coal
  • coassume — to assume jointly
  • coequals — Plural form of coequal.
  • cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
  • concause — a shared cause
  • consuela — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “consolation.”.
  • consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
  • consulta — an official meeting or consultation
  • coquinas — Plural form of coquina.
  • costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • crankous — fretful; cranky
  • curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
  • curators — Plural form of curator.
  • custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
  • cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
  • dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
  • dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
  • docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
  • douglassFrederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
  • dustcoat — a loose lightweight coat worn for early open motor-car riding
  • ease out — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
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