8-letter words containing c, a, s, o
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castizos — Plural form of castizo.
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- castrato — (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cattalos — Plural form of cattalo.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautious — Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chamisos — Plural form of chamiso.
- chansons — Plural form of chanson.
- chaotics — (literature) A recent branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- chausson — Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1855–99, French composer.
- chicanos — of or relating to Mexican-Americans or their culture.
- chitosan — a polysaccharide produced from chitin
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- choragus — the leader of a chorus
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- chubasco — (in Mexico) a hurricane
- cimarosa — Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- clamours — Plural form of clamour.
- clangors — Plural form of clangor.
- clarions — Plural form of clarion.
- clarkson — Thomas. 1760–1846, British campaigner for the abolition of slavery
- classico — (of Italian wines) coming from the Chianti wine-growing region
- closable — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- coachers — Plural form of coacher.
- coal gas — a mixture of gases produced by the distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting: consists mainly of hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coalesce — If two or more things coalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system.
- coalfish — a dark-coloured gadoid food fish, Pollachius virens, occurring in northern seas
- coalless — without coal
- coalsack — a sack in which coal is carried
- coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coarsely — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.