8-letter words containing c, a, t, s
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- archaist — something archaic, as a word or expression.
- arctiids — Plural form of arctiid.
- arcturus — the brightest star in the constellation Boötes: a red giant. Visual magnitude: –0.4; spectral type: K2III; distance: 37 light years
- articals — Misspelling of articles Plural form of artical.
- articles — legal training
- artistic — Someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way.
- asbestic — relating to asbestos
- ascetics — Plural form of ascetic.
- ascomata — a fruiting body that bears asci.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- aspartic — Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives.
- aspected — (astrology, obsolete) Subject to a particular planetary aspect.
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- attaches — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- atticism — the idiom or character of the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, esp in the Hellenistic period
- attracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attract.
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- backcast — a backward casting of a fishing rod
- backfist — a karate punch with the back of a clenched hand.
- backlist — a publisher's previously published books that are still available
- backmost — furthest back
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- backstab — to attack in a deceitful manner
- backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- basaltic — the dark, dense igneous rock of a lava flow or minor intrusion, composed essentially of labradorite and pyroxene and often displaying a columnar structure.
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.
- basicity — the state of being a base
- basilect — (in a region where creole is or has been spoken) the dialect closest to that creole and furthest removed from the most prestigious dialect (the acrolect) of the region
- bearcats — Plural form of bearcat.
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- brackets — a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair