8-letter words containing d, o, a
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calycoid — resembling a calyx
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- caodaism — an eclectic religion, originated in Cochin-China in 1926, combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist elements and affected to some extent by Christianity.
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
- cardamom — Cardamom is a spice. It comes from the seeds of a plant grown in Asia.
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- cardioid — a heart-shaped curve generated by a fixed point on a circle as it rolls around another fixed circle of equal radius, a. Equation: r = a(1 – cos φ), where r is the radius vector and φ is the polar angle
- cardroom — a room for carding wool.
- carloads — Plural form of carload.
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- cartload — the amount a cart can hold
- cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- cat door — a small door or flap in a larger door through which a cat can pass
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cathodal — (biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathodic — pertaining to a cathode or phenomena in its vicinity.
- caudillo — (in Spanish-speaking countries) a military or political leader
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cb radio — a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chaordic — (of a system, organization, or natural process) governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.