8-letter words containing n, a, s, o
- cognatus — (legal) A person connected through cognation.
- coinages — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonsay — an island in W Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides. Area: about 41 sq km (16 sq miles)
- commands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- concause — a shared cause
- conceals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceal.
- congeals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congeal.
- congrats — congratulations
- constant — You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there.
- constate — to affirm
- consuela — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “consolation.”.
- consular — Consular means involving or relating to a consul or the work of a consul.
- consulta — an official meeting or consultation
- contacts — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- contessa — an Italian countess
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- coolants — Plural form of coolant.
- coquinas — Plural form of coquina.
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- corbinas — Plural form of corbina.
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corsican — of or relating to Corsica or its inhabitants
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crossman — Richard (Howard Stafford). 1907–74, British Labour politician. His diaries, published posthumously as the Crossman Papers (1975), revealed details of cabinet discussions
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyanosis — a bluish-purple discoloration of skin and mucous membranes usually resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood
- daimones — disembodied souls
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- descanso — A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diamonds — one of the four suits in an ordinary pack of cards bearing red lozenge-shapes symbols
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- dionysia — The orgiastic Ancient Greek festivals seasonally held in honor of Dionysus, which evolved into Greek comedy and tragedy.
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.