8-letter words containing c, o, t, a
- anchoret — anchorite.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- apositic — causing apositia
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apothece — a shop or storehouse
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- archetto — a tool, consisting of a bow strung with wire, for trimming excess material from a piece being modeled.
- aromatic — An aromatic plant or food has a strong, pleasant smell of herbs or spices.
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- art rock — a type of rock music, often with poetic lyrics, characterized by sophisticated harmonic, dynamic, and technical complexity based on forms derived from classical music and requiring performers of considerable training and skill.
- ascomata — a fruiting body that bears asci.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- atomical — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- atrophic — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attercop — a spider
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autoptic — relating to or belonging to personal observation
- auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
- azotemic — the accumulation of abnormally large amounts of nitrogenous waste products in the blood, as in uremic poisoning.
- babracot — a wooden grating used by Indians in South America for roasting and drying food.
- back lot — an outdoor area, usually adjoining a studio, used for the shooting of exterior scenes.
- back out — If you back out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
- backfoot — (transitive) To put on the defensive; to put off balance.
- backmost — furthest back
- backport — (software) To make a feature from a later version of a piece of software available in an earlier version. Backporting of features enables users of the older version to benefit from a feature without upgrading fully.
- backstop — a screen or fence to prevent balls leaving the playing area
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- basecoat — a first coat of a surfacing material, as paint.