8-letter words containing c, r, o, s
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- georgics — Plural form of georgic.
- gracioso — a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- groschen — a zinc or aluminum coin of Austria until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a schilling.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- historic — well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions.
- horsecar — a streetcar drawn by a horse or horses.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- incensor — an incense burner; censer
- incisors — any of the four anterior teeth in each jaw, used for cutting and gnawing.
- incisory — adapted for cutting, as the incisor teeth.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- incorpse — to incorporate
- inscroll — enscroll.
- iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
- iscariot — the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- isobaric — Meteorology. having or showing equal barometric pressure.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isocracy — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- knockers — a person or thing that knocks.
- lacrosse — a game, originated by Indians of North America, in which two 10-member teams attempt to send a small ball into each other's netted goal, each player being equipped with a crosse or stick at the end of which is a netted pocket for catching, carrying, or throwing the ball.
- licensor — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- macarons — Plural form of macaron.
- mascaron — mask (def 11).
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbus — minibus.
- miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- moroccos — Plural form of morocco.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- narcosis — a state of stupor or drowsiness.
- necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- necroses — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- necrosis — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.