8-letter words containing ca
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- blackcap — a brownish-grey Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black crown
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- bocaccio — a species of rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis, commonly found along the west coast of North America
- bockscar — the U.S. B-29 bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
- bookcase — A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves that you keep books on.
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- boudicca — died 62 ad, a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- bozcaada — Turkish island in the Aegean, near the Dardanelles: 15 sq mi (39 sq km): in Greek legend, as Tenedos, the base of the Greek fleet in the Trojan War
- braccate — (of birds) having feathered legs
- brancard — a litter hung on poles, carried between two horses, one in front and the other behind
- brassica — Brassicas are vegetables such as cabbages, broccoli and turnips.
- brocaded — fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
- brocatel — a brocade in which the design is woven in high relief.
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buccally — from the point of view of the cheek or mouth
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- by-catch — unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish
- ca'canny — moderation or wariness
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- caatinga — a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest
- cab rank — an area, often specially designated, where taxis wait to pick up passengers
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- cabalism — a mystical philosophical doctrine based on the doctrines of the cabala
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- cabbages — Plural form of cabbage.
- cabbagey — resembling a cabbage
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- cabining — Present participle of cabin.
- cable tv — a television system in which a high antenna and one or more dish antennas receive signals from distant and local stations, electronic satellite relays, etc. and transmit them by direct cable to the receivers of persons subscribing to the system
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- cabochon — a smooth domed gem, polished but unfaceted
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean