8-letter words containing c, o, r, a
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- corcaigh — a city and port in S Republic of Ireland, county town of Co Cork, at the mouth of the River Lee: seat of the University College of Cork (1849). Pop: 186 239 (2002)
- cordelia — a feminine name
- cordials — Plural form of cordial.
- cordovan — a fine leather now made principally from horsehide, isolated from the skin layers above and below it and tanned
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- core war — (games) (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
- corelate — to correlate.
- cork oak — an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, Quercus suber, with a porous outer bark from which cork is obtained
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- cornball — Cornball means the same as corny.
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cornelia — a feminine name
- cornflag — a gladiolus, any iridaceous plant of the genus Gladiolus
- cornland — the type of land that is suitable for growing corn or grain
- cornmeal — Cornmeal is a powder made from maize. It is used in cooking.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- coronach — a dirge or lamentation for the dead
- coronado — Franˈcisˈco Vásquez de (fʀɑnˈðisˈkɔ vɑskɛð ðɛ) ; fränthēsˈk^ō väsˈketh the) 1510?-54?; Sp. explorer of what is now the Southwest in the U.S.
- coronary — Coronary means belonging or relating to the heart.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- coronial — of or relating to a coroner
- corotate — to rotate in conjunction with something else that is rotating
- corporal — A corporal is a non-commissioned officer in the army or United States Marines.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corraded — Simple past tense and past participle of corrade.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corridas — Plural form of corrida.
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- corrival — rival
- corsages — Plural form of corsage.
- corsairs — Plural form of corsair.
- corsican — of or relating to Corsica or its inhabitants
- cortazar — ˈJulio (ˈhʊlioʊ ) ; hooˈlēō) 1914-84; Argentine writer
- cortical — of a cortex
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- costards — Plural form of costard.
- costmary — a herbaceous plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, native to Asia. Its fragrant leaves were used as a seasoning and to flavour ale: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
- coumarou — a tall leguminous tree, Coumarouna odorata, of tropical America
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization