8-letter words containing c, o, r, a
- colorant — A colorant is a substance that is used to give something a particular color.
- colorate — To apply color to something, make colourful.
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- combater — One who combats.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comparer — One who, or that which, compares.
- compares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compare.
- comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- conarial — of or relating to the conarium
- conarium — the pineal gland
- condylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- congaree — river in S.C., joining the Wateree to form the Santee River: 52 mi (84 km)
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- congrats — congratulations
- congratz — (Internet slang) congratulations.
- conrad i — died a.d. 918, king of Germany 911–918.
- consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
- contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
- contrair — contrary
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- contrate — (of gears, esp the gears of watches) having teeth set at a right angle to the axis
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- copatron — a fellow patron
- coplanar — lying in the same plane
- copperah — copra.
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- 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
- copyread — to subedit
- coracles — Plural form of coracle.
- coracoid — a paired ventral bone of the pectoral girdle in vertebrates. In mammals it is reduced to a peg (the coracoid process) on the scapula
- coraggio — an exhortation for a person to be brave
- coral 66 — A real-time system programming language derived from JOVIAL and ALGOL 60. It was adopted as the British military standard from 1970 until the arrival of Ada.
- 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
- coranach — Alternative form of coronach.