8-letter words containing c, r, a, s
- crossarm — a horizontal bar or arm
- crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
- crossman — Richard (Howard Stafford). 1907–74, British Labour politician. His diaries, published posthumously as the Crossman Papers (1975), revealed details of cabinet discussions
- crossway — a junction
- crostata — A kind of Italian baked tart.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- crystall — Obsolete form of crystal.
- crystals — Plural form of crystal.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curtails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curtail.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- custardy — resembling custard
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- cytaster — aster.
- czarists — of, relating to, or characteristic of a czar or the system and principles of government under a czar.
- czaritsa — A czarina or tsaritsa.
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- discards — Plural form of discard.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- doorcase — the finish frame of a doorway.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dustcart — a garbage truck.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- earaches — Plural form of earache.
- ecraseur — surgical device consisting of a heavy wire loop placed around a part to be removed and tightened until it cuts through
- ectosarc — the ectoplasm of a protozoan (opposed to endosarc).
- embraces — Plural form of embrace.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- encastre — (of a beam) fixed at the ends
- encrease — Obsolete spelling of increase.
- epicarps — Plural form of epicarp.
- ergastic — consisting of the non-living by-products of protoplasmic activity