8-letter words containing s, o, c, e
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- casebook — A casebook is a written record of the cases dealt with by someone such as a doctor, social worker, or police officer.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- 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.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cavesson — a kind of hard noseband, used (esp formerly) in breaking a horse in
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- cernuous — (of some flowers or buds) drooping
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- cessions — Plural form of cession.
- cesspool — A cesspool is the same as a cesspit.
- cestodes — Plural form of cestode.
- chaebols — Plural form of chaebol.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- cheroots — Plural form of cheroot.
- chevrons — Plural form of chevron.
- chockers — Alternative form of chocker.
- 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)
- chollers — the jowls or cheeks
- chompers — (informal) teeth.
- choosers — Plural form of chooser.
- chooseth — Archaic third-person singular form of choose.
- chopines — Plural form of chopine.
- choppers — teeth
- chorales — Plural form of chorale.
- choregus — the producer or financier of a dramatist's works in Ancient Greece
- chortles — Plural form of chortle.
- chorused — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- choruses — Plural form of chorus.
- 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.
- chowders — Plural form of chowder.
- cicisbeo — the escort or lover of a married woman, esp in 18th-century Italy
- citreous — of a greenish-yellow colour; citron
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- clobbers — Plural form of clobber.
- clockers — Plural form of clocker.
- cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.