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8-letter words containing c, o, n, e

  • 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)
  • calzones — Plural form of calzone.
  • cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
  • 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
  • camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
  • camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
  • 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
  • cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
  • 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.
  • canoeman — (chiefly, Canada, historical) A voyageur.
  • canoness — a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow
  • canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
  • canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
  • canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
  • canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
  • canopies — Plural form of canopy.
  • canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
  • cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
  • canzones — Plural form of canzone.
  • canzonet — a short, sprightly song
  • cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
  • caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
  • caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
  • capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
  • carborne — travelling by car
  • careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
  • carletonGuy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
  • carneous — fleshy
  • carolean — characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England: a Carolean costume.
  • caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
  • carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
  • carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
  • catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
  • cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
  • cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
  • cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
  • cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
  • cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
  • cenozoic — of, denoting, or relating to the most recent geological era, which began 65 000 000 years ago: characterized by the development and increase of the mammals
  • censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
  • centavos — Plural form of centavo.
  • centimos — Plural form of centimo.
  • centoist — a person who composes centos
  • centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
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