8-letter words containing a, u, t, o, c
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coauthor — The coauthors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- cocoanut — the large, hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.
- coequate — to equate with something else
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- cola nut — any of the seeds of the cola tree, which contain caffeine and theobromine and are used medicinally and in the manufacture of soft drinks
- conneaut — a city in NE Ohio.
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- continua — a continuous extent, series, or whole.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- cotquean — a coarse woman
- 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
- couchant — in a lying position
- countian — a resident of a specific county
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courtrai — a town in W Belgium, in West Flanders on the Lys River: the largest producer of linen in W Europe. Pop: 73 984 (2004 est)
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crotalum — a type of castanet, often used in religious dances in ancient Greece
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- dustcoat — a loose lightweight coat worn for early open motor-car riding
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- eurocrat — European Union official
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- oceanaut — aquanaut.
- octavius — a male given name.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- ouachita — a river flowing SE from W Arkansas through NE Louisiana to the Red River. 605 miles (975 km) long.