8-letter words that end in t
- catch at — to try to catch
- catch it — to be scolded or reprimanded
- catfight — A catfight is an angry fight or quarrel, especially between women.
- cattegat — Kattegat
- cattiest — catlike; feline.
- 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.
- cei-pact — Central European Initiative on Parallel Computation.
- cellaret — a case, cabinet, or sideboard with compartments for holding wine bottles
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerement — any burial clothes
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chalkpit — a quarry for chalk
- champart — the granting of land to a person on condition that a portion of the harvest will be given to the landowner
- chantant — melodious; tuneful.
- chapelet — A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chartlet — a small chart indicating some special thing, as information relative to a radio navigational aid.
- chastest — Superlative form of chaste.
- chatfest — (informal) A talkfest.
- chaumont — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- chayroot — the root of a chay plant, used to dye textiles a deep-red colour
- cheapest — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- checkout — In a supermarket, a checkout is a counter where you pay for things you are buying.
- cheshunt — a town in SE England, in SE Hertfordshire: a dormitory town of London. Pop: 55 275 (2001)
- chesnutt — Charles Waddell [wo-del] /wɒˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
- chevalet — the piece of wood in a musical instrument that the strings are stretched over and which passes on their movement or oscillation to the main part of the instrument
- cheveret — a small English table of the 18th century, having an oblong top, one or two rows of drawers, and slender legs joined near the bottom by a shelf.
- chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chicklet — A small or young chick.
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chiliast — (Christianity) One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years.
- chillest — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- chillout — (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- chip art — microchip art
- chip set — (hardware) A collection of integrated circuits that are designed to be used together for some specific purpose. E.g. control circuitry in an IBM PC.
- chitchat — Chitchat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
- 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.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.