8-letter words containing oa
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- boxboard — a tough paperboard made from wood and wastepaper pulp: used for making boxes, etc
- broached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broacher — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broadish — fairly broad
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- car coat — a short man's coat, designed to be worn when driving a car
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- carboard — (slang) A sport where a rider is towed behind a vehicle. In many ways it encompasses a lot of the aspects of winching in that it has a 'go anywhere' approach. It can in essence occur behind any vehicle assuming that it has sufficient horse power, torque and traction, but the most popular vehicles remain four wheel drives and tractors.
- carloads — Plural form of carload.
- cartload — the amount a cart can hold
- cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- charcoal — Charcoal is a black substance obtained by burning wood without much air. It can be burned as a fuel, and small sticks of it are used for drawing with.
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- choaking — Present participle of choak.
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- cloaking — Present participle of cloak.
- coachers — Plural form of coacher.
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- coachman — A coachman was a man who drove a coach that was pulled by horses.
- coachmen — Plural form of coachman.
- coacting — Present participle of coact.
- coaction — any relationship between organisms within a community
- coactive — acting together.
- coadmire — to admire together
- coagency — a joint agency
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd
- coahuila — a state of N Mexico: mainly plateau, crossed by several mountain ranges that contain rich mineral resources. Capital: Saltillo. Pop: 2 295 808 (2000). Area: 151 571 sq km (59 112 sq miles)
- coal car — a railroad car designed for transporting coal
- coal gas — a mixture of gases produced by the distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting: consists mainly of hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide
- coal hod — a small pail for carrying coal; a coal scuttle.
- coal oil — petroleum or a refined product from petroleum, esp kerosene
- coal pit — a pit where coal is dug.
- coal pot — a cooking device using charcoal, consisting of a raised iron bowl and a central grid
- coal tar — Coal tar is a thick black liquid made from coal which is used for making drugs and chemical products.
- coal tit — a small European songbird, Parus ater, having a black head with a white patch on the nape: family Paridae (tits)
- coalball — a nodule of coal containing fossilized plant remains
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coalesce — If two or more things coalesce, they come together and form a larger group or system.