8-letter words containing c, o, a, m
- cimarosa — Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)
- cimarron — river flowing from NE N.Mex. eastward to the Arkansas River, near Tulsa, Okla.: c. 600 mi (966 km)
- cimbalom — a type of dulcimer, esp of Hungary
- cinnamon — Cinnamon is a sweet spice used for flavouring food.
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorer — Alternative spelling of clamourer.
- clamours — Plural form of clamour.
- clamworm — any of several burrowing polychaete worms of the genus Nereis, used as bait for fishing.
- claymore — a large two-edged broadsword used formerly by Scottish Highlanders
- coachman — A coachman was a man who drove a coach that was pulled by horses.
- coachmen — Plural form of coachman.
- coadmire — to admire together
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd
- coalmine — a system of excavations made for the extraction of coal
- coamings — Plural form of coaming, especially all sides of a single coach roof, hatch, or cockpit.
- coassume — to assume jointly
- coatroom — A coatroom is the same as a coat check.
- cocamide — A mixture of amides of the fatty acids obtained from coconut oil, used in many surfactants.
- cocksman — A man who is sexually talented.
- codename — Alternative spelling of code name.
- codomain — the set of values that a function is allowed to take
- coinmate — a fellow inmate
- colamine — ethanolamine.
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columnal — of, like, or relating to a column
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- comanche — a member of a Native American people, formerly ranging from the River Platte to the Mexican border, now living in Oklahoma
- comaneci — Nadia. born 1961, Romanian gymnast: gold medal winner in the 1976 Olympic Games where she became the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10; defected to the US in 1989
- comatose — A person who is comatose is in a coma.
- combahee — a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combater — One who combats.
- come and — to move towards a particular person or thing or accompany a person with some specified purpose
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- comitial — an assembly of the people convened to pass on laws, nominate magistrates, etc.
- commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- commando — A commando is a group of soldiers who have been specially trained to carry out surprise attacks.
- commands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- commital — Alternative form of committal.
- communal — Communal means relating to particular groups in a country or society.
- compacts — Plural form of compact.