8-letter words containing o, c, t, a
- cottabus — (in ancient Greece) a game that was popular among young men at drinking parties and which involved throwing wine into a vessel while uttering the name of a beloved
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- cottages — Plural form of cottage.
- cottagey — of or resembling a cottage
- couchant — in a lying position
- countian — a resident of a specific county
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courtrai — a town in W Belgium, in West Flanders on the Lys River: the largest producer of linen in W Europe. Pop: 73 984 (2004 est)
- cousteau — Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- cow-tail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
- crackpot — If you describe someone or their ideas as crackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creators — Plural form of creator.
- cremator — a furnace for cremating corpses
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- croceate — saffron-coloured
- crostata — A kind of Italian baked tart.
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crotalum — a type of castanet, often used in religious dances in ancient Greece
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryostat — an apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature or a vessel in which a substance is stored at a low temperature
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curators — Plural form of curator.
- curatory — the office of a curator
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cymation — cymatium.
- dactylo- — finger or toe
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- diatomic — containing two atoms
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
- doctoral — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.