8-letter words containing c, a, s, o
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.
- backlogs — Plural form of backlog.
- backmost — furthest back
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- ballocks — (nonce, used only by James Joyce) Alternative form of bollocks.
- bannocks — Plural form of bannock.
- barbasco — an evergreen South American plant, Jacquinia barbasco, which produces a poison harmless to humans but useful for stunning fish to make them easy to catch
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- besancon — a city in E France, on the Doubs River: university (1422). Pop: 121 012 (2006)
- bifocals — Bifocals are glasses with lenses made in two halves. The top part is for looking at things some distance away, and the bottom part is for reading and looking at things that are close.
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- 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.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.