8-letter words containing t, e, r
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- 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
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calypter — a bastard wing or alula
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car seat — a seat in an automobile; specif., a portable seat that fastens onto a car's built-in seat and is used for securing a small child
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carcanet — a jewelled collar or necklace
- caretake — to work as a caretaker
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- carteret — John, 1st Earl Granville. 1690–1763, British statesman, diplomat, and orator who led the opposition to Walpole (1730–42), after whose fall he became a leading minister as secretary of state (1742–44)
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- catchers — Plural form of catcher.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- 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.
- 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
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.