8-letter words containing c, o, a
- 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.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- cambogia — gamboge (def 1).
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- 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.
- cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- 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.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- cannolis — Plural form of cannoli.
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoeing — Canoeing is the sport of using and racing a canoe.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.