8-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castrato — (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catchers — Plural form of catcher.
- caterans — Plural form of cateran.
- caterers — Plural form of caterer.
- cateress — a female caterer
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- 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.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- 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.
- 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
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chatters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chatter.
- cheaters — eyeglasses, esp. dark glasses
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- citharas — Plural form of cithara.
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.
- clatters — Plural form of clatter.
- claustra — barrier.
- clearest — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- coarsest — composed of relatively large parts or particles: The beach had rough, coarse sand.
- coasters — Plural form of coaster.
- congrats — congratulations
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- copastor — a fellow pastor
- corantos — Plural form of coranto.
- costards — Plural form of costard.
- costmary — a herbaceous plant, Chrysanthemum balsamita, native to Asia. Its fragrant leaves were used as a seasoning and to flavour ale: family Asteraceae (composites)
- crafters — Plural form of crafter.
- cragfast — stranded or stuck on a crag
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- crapfest — (informal, vulgar) Something of incredibly low quality.
- crassest — without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
- cratches — a crib for fodder; manger.
- craziest — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- creators — Plural form of creator.
- cremates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cremate.
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance