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8-letter words containing c, r, e, a

  • cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
  • cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
  • cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
  • cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
  • cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
  • cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
  • cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
  • caerleon — a town in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: traditionally the seat of King Arthur's court. Pop: 9392 (2001)
  • caesarea — an ancient port in NW Israel, capital of Roman Palestine: founded by Herod the Great
  • caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
  • caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
  • caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
  • caesuric — caesural
  • café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
  • cafe car — a railroad car, part of which is used as a diner and part as a lounge, smoker, etc.
  • cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
  • cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
  • cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
  • cajolery — persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing.
  • calciner — a person or thing that calcines.
  • calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
  • calderas — Plural form of caldera.
  • calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
  • calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
  • calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
  • calibers — Plural form of caliber.
  • calibres — Plural form of calibre.
  • calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
  • calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
  • callware — (company)   The developers of Phonetastic.
  • calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
  • calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
  • calypter — a bastard wing or alula
  • cam gear — a gear not centered on the shaft, used where discontinuous action is required
  • cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
  • cambered — Having camber.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
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