8-letter words containing c, o, a
- bromance — A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men.
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- buckaroo — a cowboy
- bucovina — Bukovina
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cacation — (archaic) excretion.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech
- cacomixl — The ring-tailed civet cat, Bassaris astuta.
- caconymy — the practice of coining caconyms
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- cakehole — (slang) The mouth.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calexico — a town in S California.
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- 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