8-letter words containing p, o, c
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- canephor — a sculpted figure carrying a basket on his or her head
- 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.
- cap rock — a layer of rock that overlies a salt dome and consists of limestone, gypsum, etc
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- cape cod — a long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, between Cape Cod Bay and the Atlantic
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- capeador — a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- capicola — A traditional Neapolitan-Italian cold cut made from pork shoulder or neck and dry-cured whole.
- capitano — a captain or chief
- capitols — Plural form of capitol.
- capoeira — a movement discipline combining martial art and dance, which originated among African slaves in 19th-century Brazil
- caponata — (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer
- 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.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- capuccio — a capuche
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- 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.
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- 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
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- cerotype — a process for preparing a printing plate by engraving a wax-coated copper plate and then using this as a mould for an electrotype