8-letter words containing c, o, a, l
- califont — a gas water heater
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
- call off — If you call off an event that has been planned, you cancel it.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- callaloo — the leaves of the taro, or, sometimes, other plants, cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- callboys — Plural form of callboy.
- calliope — a steam organ
- 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.
- calloway — Cab(ell) 1907–1994, U.S. jazz bandleader and singer.
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- 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
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- 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)
- calycoid — resembling a calyx
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- cameltoe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- 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.
- camomile — Camomile is a scented plant with flowers like small daisies. The flowers can be used to make herbal tea.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- cantonal — Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
- capicola — A traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- carbinol — methanol
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- carillon — a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.