8-letter words containing c, r, e, a
- aetheric — ether (defs 3–5).
- affecter — a person who makes a real or pretence show of liking, being, or knowing something
- agacerie — allurement, enticement, enchantment, coquetry
- agrestic — rural; rustic
- air cell — Anatomy, Zoology, Botany. a cavity or receptacle containing air.
- air-core — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
- aircheck — a recording made from a radio or television broadcast, often used for demonstration or quality control purposes
- aircrews — Plural form of aircrew.
- airforce — Alternative spelling of air force.
- airscape — a view of the land or sea below from the air
- airscrew — an aircraft propeller
- airspace — A country's airspace is the part of the sky that is over that country and is considered to belong to it.
- albacore — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- alberich — (in medieval German legend) the king of the dwarfs and guardian of the treasures of the Nibelungs
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- allecret — a half suit of light plate armor.
- allergic — If you are allergic to something, you become ill or get a rash when you eat it, smell it, or touch it.
- allocher — any of the variant forms of a chereme.
- altrices — altricial birds
- amelcorn — a variety of wheat used to produce starch
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amorance — the state of being in love
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- apricate — to sunbathe or bask in the sun
- apyretic — without fever
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcature — a small-scale arcade
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- archaeal — relating to or involving the order Archaea
- archaean — any member of the Archaea, a domain of prokaryotic microorganisms, distinguished from bacteria on molecular phylogenetic grounds and often found in hostile environments, such as volcanic vents and hot springs
- archaeo- — indicating ancient or primitive time or condition
- archaeon — A microorganism, physically resembling a bacterium, of the kingdom Archaea.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.