8-letter words containing e, t, c
- bucketed — a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- cachepot — an ornamental container for a flowerpot
- cachette — A hidden nook; a hiding place.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- 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
- caecitis — an inflammation of the caecum
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- cake tin — A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in.
- calamite — any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
- calanthe — any of various orchids of the genus Calanthe of the family Orchidaceae, found in tropical areas and having long-lasting yellow, white, or pink flowers
- calathea — any plant of the S. American perennial genus Calathea, many species of which are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative variegated leaves, esp the zebra plant (C. zebrina), the leaves of which are purplish below and dark green with lighter stripes above: family Marantaceae
- calceate — to shoe
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- calltime — time available for making calls on a mobile phone
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- cameltoe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canities — greyness or whiteness of hair
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- canteens — Plural form of canteen.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- canticle — a nonmetrical hymn, derived from the Bible and used in the liturgy of certain Christian churches
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.