8-letter words containing c, a, r, i, e
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- merrimac — a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- micellar — Physical Chemistry. an electrically charged particle formed by an aggregate of molecules and occurring in certain colloidal electrolyte solutions, as those of soaps and detergents.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- narceine — a narcotic alkaloid, C 2 3 H 2 7 NO 8 , occurring in opium and acting as a mild relaxant on smooth muscle.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- nearctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
- neorican — a Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- picrated — containing picrate
- pie cart — a mobile van selling warmed-up food and drinks
- poincare — Jules Henri [zhyl ahn-ree] /ʒül ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1912, French mathematician.
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- race-fit — (of a person, animal, etc) fit or suitable for racing
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- racemize — to change or cause to change into a racemic mixture
- racemoid — racemic
- rachises — Plural form of rachis.
- racinage — decorative treatment of leather with colors and acids to produce a branchlike effect.
- raciness — slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- raft ice — ice in cakes or sheets overlapping or piled on top of one another.
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- reacting — to act or perform again.
- reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.