8-letter words containing c, o, u, 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
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- 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.
- discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- document — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- duecento — the 13th century, with reference to Italy, especially to its art or literature.
- eduction — the act of educing.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gonoduct — a duct leading from a gonad to the exterior, through which gametes pass
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- lock nut — a nut specially constructed to prevent its coming loose, usually having a means of providing extra friction between itself and the screw.
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- noctuoid — a member of the family of moths Noctuidae
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- nocturns — Plural form of nocturn.
- noncount — (of a noun) not countable.
- not much — very little
- notch up — make score marks to count