8-letter words containing s, e, c
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caecitis — an inflammation of the caecum
- caesarea — an ancient port in NW Israel, capital of Roman Palestine: founded by Herod the Great
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- caffeism — a morbid condition caused by excessive caffeine intake
- cageless — Without a cage.
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- cakiness — the state of being cakey
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- calfless — (of a cow) having no calves
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calicoes — Plural form of calico.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calluses — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- cambyses — died ?522 bc, king of Persia (529–?522 bc), who conquered Egypt (525); son of Cyrus the Great
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- camelish — similar to a camel
- camisole — A camisole is a short piece of clothing that women wear on the top half of their bodies underneath a shirt or blouse, for example.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- candelas — Plural form of candela.