8-letter words containing c, a, r, i, e
- archiver — One who, or that which, archives.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archwise — like an arch
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argerich — Martha. born 1941, Argentinian concert pianist
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- articles — legal training
- artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- arvicole — a mouse or water vole that belongs to the genus Arvicola
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- balearic — of or relating to the Balearic Islands
- barbicel — any of the minute hooks on the barbules of feathers that interlock with those of adjacent barbules
- beatrice — a feminine name: dim. Bea; var. Beatrix
- beccaria — Cesare Bonesana (ˈtʃɛzare bɔnɛˈzɑːna), Marchese de. 1738–94, Italian legal theorist and political economist; author of the influential treatise Crimes and Punishments (1764), which attacked corruption, torture, and capital punishment
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bernicia — a 6th- and 7th- century Anglian kingdom, merged with Deira to form the kingdom of Northumbria, in present-day NE England and SE Scotland.
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- boracite — a white mineral that forms salt deposits of magnesium borate and chloride in orthorhombic crystalline form. Formula: Mg3ClB7O13
- braciole — a flat piece of veal or beef rolled around a filling and baked in stock and wine.
- brattice — a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
- breccial — of or relating to breccia
- brisance — the shattering effect or power of an explosion or explosive
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.