8-letter words containing c, o, n
- 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.
- 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.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- 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.
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cant dog — cant hook
- canthook — a wooden pole with a blunt steel tip and an adjustable hook at one end, used for handling logs
- cantonal — Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- canzonas — Plural form of canzona.
- canzones — Plural form of canzone.
- canzonet — a short, sprightly song
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- capitano — a captain or chief
- caponata — (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer
- 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
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- carbinol — methanol
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carborne — travelling by car
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- carillon — a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
- cariocan — a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carlsson — Ingvar [ing-vahr] /ˈɪŋ vɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Swedish political leader: prime minister 1986–91, 1994–96.
- carneous — fleshy
- carniola — a region of N Slovenia: a former duchy and crownland of Austria (1335–1919); divided between Yugoslavia and Italy in 1919; part of Yugoslavia (1947–92)
- carolean — characteristic of the time of Charles I and II of England: a Carolean costume.
- carolina — a former English colony on the E coast of North America, first established in 1663: divided in 1729 into North and South Carolina, which are often referred to as the Carolinas
- 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
- caroling — a song, especially of joy.
- caroming — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- 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
- carry on — If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.