8-letter words containing c, o, a
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- cartoony — cartoonish
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- 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
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cash mob — a group of people coordinated to meet and spend money at a local, independent business at a particular time
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cashbook — a book in which all receipts and payments of money are entered
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- 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.
- cassocks — Plural form of cassock.
- cast off — If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you.
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- cast-off — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- 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
- cat door — a small door or flap in a larger door through which a cat can pass
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat-foot — to move in the soft, stealthy manner of a cat; pussyfoot.
- catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
- 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
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- catholic — The Catholic Church is the branch of the Christian Church that accepts the Pope as its leader and is based in the Vatican in Rome.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cationic — a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.