8-letter words containing c, o, a, e
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carriole — cariole
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- cavalero — a gentleman or cavalier
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- chaconne — a musical form consisting of a set of continuous variations upon a ground bass
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- chamotte — grog (def 3).
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charneco — a type of sweet wine originating from Portugal
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- cheat on — If someone cheats on their husband, wife, or partner, they have a sexual relationship with another person.
- chechako — cheechako
- chelator — an organic chemical that bonds with metal ions and produces a chelate compound
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorer — Alternative spelling of clamourer.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place