8-letter words containing r, e, a, c
- coparent — a fellow parent
- copperah — copra.
- copperas — ferrous sulfate
- copremia — poisoning due to the presence of fecal matter in the blood.
- copyread — to subedit
- coracles — Plural form of coracle.
- coramine — a drug, C10H14N2O, which is a circulatory stimulant and is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, hence preventing its use by athletes
- cordelia — a feminine name
- core war — (games) (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
- corelate — to correlate.
- corncake — a cornmeal flatbread
- cornelia — a feminine name
- cornmeal — Cornmeal is a powder made from maize. It is used in cooking.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- corotate — to rotate in conjunction with something else that is rotating
- corraded — Simple past tense and past participle of corrade.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corsages — Plural form of corsage.
- cosgrave — Liam (ˈliːəm). born 1920, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1973–77)
- cottager — a person who lives in a cottage
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
- coverall — a thing that covers something entirely
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crablike — resembling a crab, esp in movement
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- crackers — crazy; insane
- crackies — by cracky.
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crackles — Plural form of crackle.
- cracknel — a type of hard plain biscuit
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- craftier — Comparative form of crafty.
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- crankier — Comparative form of cranky.
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- crannies — Plural form of cranny.
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crappier — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
- crappies — Plural form of crappie.
- crapplet — (web, abuse) A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
- crashers — Plural form of crasher.