8-letter words containing c, a, b, o
- diabolic — Diabolic is used to describe things that people think are caused by or belong to the Devil.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- eboracum — ancient name of York, England.
- evocable — That can be evoked.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- facebook — A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals\u2019 photographs and names.
- factbook — A book of facts.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gambogic — of or derived from gamboge
- gobsmack — (transitive, slang) To astonish.
- hackbolt — a European seabird, Puffinus major
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jacobean — of or relating to James I of England or to his period.
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.
- jacobina — a female given name.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- kiabooca — padouk.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- lab coat — long white garment worn in laboratory
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- loanback — a facility offered by some life-assurance companies in which an individual can borrow from his pension fund
- lock bay — a broadened section of a canal before the gates of a lock.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- loopback — The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- maccaboy — a kind of snuff, usually rose-scented.
- mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- mobocrat — One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mossback — Informal. a person holding very antiquated notions; reactionary. a person living in the backwoods; rustic.
- nancyboy — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate or homosexual man.
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- nonblack — (of a person) not black.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- out back — (sometimes initial capital letter) the back country or remote settlements; the bush (usually preceded by the).