8-letter words containing c, r, a
- calyptra — a membranous hood covering the spore-bearing capsule of mosses and liverworts
- cam gear — a gear not centered on the shaft, used where discontinuous action is required
- cam ranh — a port in SE Vietnam: large natural harbour, used at times as a naval base by French, Japanese, US, and Russian forces successively. Pop: 147 000 (2006 est)
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- cameleer — a camel-driver
- cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- camp car — a railroad car used as a dormitory for construction and maintenance workers.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- cancered — affected by cancer
- cancrine — resembling a crab
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannonry — a volley of artillery fire
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- canvaser — Alt form canvasser.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape ray — a promontory in SW Newfoundland, Canada
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capering — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capmaker — a person who makes caps