8-letter words containing c, a, n
- contessa — an Italian countess
- continua — a continuous extent, series, or whole.
- contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
- contrair — contrary
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- contrate — (of gears, esp the gears of watches) having teeth set at a right angle to the axis
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- conveyal — the act or means of conveying
- convival — (obsolete) Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
- coolamon — a shallow dish of wood or bark, used for carrying water
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- coon cat — cacomistle
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- coquinas — Plural form of coquina.
- coramine — a drug, C10H14N2O, which is a circulatory stimulant and is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, hence preventing its use by athletes
- coranach — Alternative form of coronach.
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cornelia — a feminine name
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- cornland — the type of land that is suitable for growing corn or grain
- cornmeal — Cornmeal is a powder made from maize. It is used in cooking.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- coronach — a dirge or lamentation for the dead
- coronado — Franˈcisˈco Vásquez de (fʀɑnˈðisˈkɔ vɑskɛð ðɛ) ; fränthēsˈk^ō väsˈketh the) 1510?-54?; Sp. explorer of what is now the Southwest in the U.S.
- coronary — Coronary means belonging or relating to the heart.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- coronial — of or relating to a coroner
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- corsican — of or relating to Corsica or its inhabitants
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cotenant — a person who holds property jointly or in common with others
- cotquean — a coarse woman
- couchant — in a lying position
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2