8-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryotron — a miniature switch working at the temperature of liquid helium and depending for its action on the production and destruction of superconducting properties in the conductor
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- electron — A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- entropic — Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.
- erection — The action of erecting a structure or object.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- injector — a person or thing that injects.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- monocrat — a person favoring monocracy.
- narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
- net cord — a cord that passes along and supports the top of a tennis net
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- nocturns — Plural form of nocturn.
- nonactor — a person who is not an actor
- norcroft — (Contraction of Norman + Mycroft) A company producing C compilers, set up by Arthur Norman and Alan Mycroft. Now "sort of" called Codemist. The original Norcroft compiler was written by Alan and Arthur to provide a platform for teaching languages and compilers on the Cambridge University mainframe. They then went on to develop versions for the transputer, ARM and others.
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- octaroon — Alternative spelling of octoroon.
- octonary — pertaining to the number 8.
- octoroon — a person having one-eighth black ancestry, with one black great-grandparent; the offspring of a quadroon and a white person.
- on track — heading for sth
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outscorn — to defy with scorn
- plectron — plectrum.