8-letter words containing c, o, m, r
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- compiler — A compiler is someone who compiles books, reports, or lists of information.
- complier — a person who complies
- comports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comport.
- composer — A composer is a person who writes music, especially classical music.
- compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- comprint — to print jointly
- comprise — If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- comprize — comprise.
- comprosl — COMpound PROcedural Scientific Language. A language for scientists and engineers.
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- conarium — the pineal gland
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confirms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confirm.
- conforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conform.
- coniform — shaped like a cone
- consumer — A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
- cookroom — a room in which food is cooked
- coolroom — (chemistry) An item of laboratory equipment. A large cupboard, or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage.
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- coprosma — any shrub of the Australasian rubiaceous genus Coprosma: sometimes planted for ornament
- corallum — the skeleton of any zoophyte, esp that of a coral colony
- coramine — a drug, C10H14N2O, which is a circulatory stimulant and is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, hence preventing its use by athletes
- coredeem — to redeem together
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores
- cork elm — any of several tall elms (genus Ulmus) of the E U.S., with corky ridges, as wahoo
- cormlike — resembling a corm
- cornmeal — Cornmeal is a powder made from maize. It is used in cooking.
- cornmill — a mill for making flour
- cornmoth — a moth, Tinea granella, whose larvae feed on grain
- cornworm — a cornmoth larva
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- coronium — a hypothetical element whose existence was proposed in the 19th century to explain a green line seen in the solar coronal spectrum; this is now known to be highly-ionized iron and nickel
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corpsmen — U.S. Navy. an enlisted person working as a pharmacist or hospital assistant.
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- costmary — a herbaceous plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, native to Asia. Its fragrant leaves were used as a seasoning and to flavour ale: family Asteraceae (composites)
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
- coumarou — a tall leguminous tree, Coumarouna odorata, of tropical America
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cramoisy — of a crimson colour
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- cream of — creamed purée of
- cremator — a furnace for cremating corpses
- cremorne — a crumhorn
- crim con — criminal conversation