8-letter words containing o, e, i, c
- canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
- canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- canopies — Plural form of canopy.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponier — a covered passageway built across a ditch as a military defence
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- capriole — a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- carioles — Plural form of cariole.
- caroline — characteristic of or relating to Charles I or Charles II, kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the society over which they ruled, or their government
- carriole — cariole
- cassiope — (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cd-video — a compact-disc player that, when connected to a television and hi-fi, produces high-quality stereo sound and synchronized pictures from a disc resembling a large compact audio disc
- cecropia — A fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
- cecropin — an antimicrobial peptide originally derived from an American moth
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- cenozoic — of, denoting, or relating to the most recent geological era, which began 65 000 000 years ago: characterized by the development and increase of the mammals
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cervico- — cervical
- cessions — Plural form of cession.
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.
- chemico- — chemical
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- chicopee — city in SW Mass., on the Connecticut River: pop. 55,000
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- chipotle — a smoked and dried jalapeno chilli pepper that is used in Mexican dishes
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- chlorine — Chlorine is a strong-smelling gas that is used to clean water and to make cleaning products.
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- choc-ice — A choc-ice is a small block of ice cream covered in chocolate.
- choicely — With care in choosing; with attention to preference.
- choicest — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- choiseul — an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppier — Comparative form of choppy.
- choregic — relating to a choregus
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chosisme — a writing style in which plot and characterization are de-emphasized and people, events, and setting are recorded as though seen by the author through the lens of a camera.