8-letter words containing r, a, t
- caterans — Plural form of cateran.
- caterers — Plural form of caterer.
- cateress — a female caterer
- caterina — a female given name, form of Catherine.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- catheter — A catheter is a tube which is used to introduce liquids into a human body or to withdraw liquids from it.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- cave art — paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters, especially naturalistic depictions of animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago.
- caveator — a person who enters a caveat
- cavitary — having or containing cavities
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- cellaret — a case, cabinet, or sideboard with compartments for holding wine bottles
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- ceterach — any of a genus of ferns characterized by scales found on the underside of the fronds
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- champart — the granting of land to a person on condition that a portion of the harvest will be given to the landowner
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charlton — Bobby, full name Sir Robert Charlton. born 1937, English footballer; played for Manchester United (1956–73) and England (1958–70) for whom he played 106 times, scoring 49 goals
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charters — Plural form of charter.
- charting — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chartlet — a small chart indicating some special thing, as information relative to a radio navigational aid.
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chartula — charta (def 2).
- chatroom — a site on the internet, or another computer network, where users have group discussions by electronic mail, typically about one subject