8-letter words containing c, o, n, t
- count on — If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans.
- count up — add, total
- counter- — Counter- is used to form words which refer to actions or activities that are intended to prevent other actions or activities or that respond to them.
- counters — Plural form of counter.
- countess — A countess is a woman who has the same rank as a count or earl, or who is married to a count or earl.
- countest — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- counthry — Irish eye dialect spelling of country.
- countian — a resident of a specific county
- counties — Plural form of county.
- counting — Not counting a particular thing means not including that thing. Counting a particular thing means including that thing.
- countrey — Archaic spelling of country.
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- coventry — a city in central England, in Coventry unitary authority, West Midlands: devastated in World War II; modern cathedral (1954–62); industrial centre, esp for motor vehicles; two universities (1965, 1992). Pop: 303 475 (2001)
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- cow town — If someone describes a town as a cow town, they mean that it is small, dull, and old-fashioned.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- cretonne — a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- crofting — In Scotland, crofting is the activity of farming on small pieces of land.
- crompton — Richmal, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn. 1890–1969, British children's author, best known for her Just William stories
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crostini — pieces of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crostino — piece of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crotoxin — a toxin in the venom of the North American rattlesnake, Crotalus terrificus.
- 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.
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cymation — cymatium.
- cynodont — a carnivorous mammal-like reptile of the late Permian and Triassic periods, whose specialized teeth were well developed
- cytogeny — (biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis.
- cytokine — any of various proteins, secreted by cells, that carry signals to neighbouring cells. Cytokines include interferon
- cytosine — a white crystalline pyrimidine occurring in nucleic acids; 6-amino-2-hydroxy pyrimidine. Formula: C4H5N3O
- cytozoon — a parasite, especially a protozoon, living within a cell.
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information