8-letter words starting with c
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- carphone — a telephone that operates by cellular radio for use in a car
- carpools — Plural form of carpool.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- carracci — a family of Italian painters, born in Bologna: Agostino (aɡosˈtiːno) (1557–1602); his brother, Annibale (anˈniːbale) (1560–1609), noted for his frescoes, esp in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome; and their cousin, Ludovico (ludoˈviːko) (1555–1619). They were influential in reviving the classical tradition of the Renaissance and founded a teaching academy (1582) in Bologna
- carranza — Venustiano [be-noos-tyah-naw] /ˌbɛ nusˈtyɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1920, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1915–20.
- carraway — Alternative form of caraway.
- carrells — Plural form of carrell.
- carreras — José (həʊsˈzeɪ). born 1947, Spanish tenor
- carriage — A carriage is an old-fashioned vehicle, usually for a small number of passengers, which is pulled by horses.
- carriere — Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French painter and lithographer.
- carriers — Plural form of carrier.
- carriole — cariole
- carritch — catechism
- carry on — If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
- carry-in — of or relating to a type of after-sales service in which the customer must take the product to the service provider for repair
- carry-on — of a size and shape suitable for being carried onto and stowed in the passenger compartment of an airplane: carry-on luggage.
- carryall — A carryall is a large bag made of nylon, canvas, or leather, which you use to carry your clothes and other possessions, for example when you are travelling.
- carrycot — A carrycot is a small bed for babies which has handles so it can be carried.
- carrying — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carryons — Plural form of carryon.
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- carshare — to take turns in driving fellow commuters to and from work or friends' children to school and back, so as to avoid the unnecessary use of several underoccupied vehicles
- cart off — to carry or remove brusquely or by force
- 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
- cartland — Dame Barbara (Hamilton). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction
- cartload — the amount a cart can hold
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- cartoony — cartoonish
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- carvings — Plural form of carving.
- caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure
- casanova — Giovanni Jacopo (dʒoˈvanni ˈjaːkopo). 1725–98, Italian adventurer noted for his Mémoires, a vivid account of his sexual adventures and of contemporary society
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- cascabel — a knoblike protrusion on the rear part of the breech of an obsolete muzzle-loading cannon
- cascaded — a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
- cascades — a mountain range extending from N California to W Canada: highest peak, Mt. Rainier, 14,408 feet (4322 meters).
- cascaras — Plural form of cascara.
- caschrom — a wooden hand-plough used to till the ground in the northwest of Scotland
- case bay — (in a roof or floor) the section between two principals.
- case law — Case law is law that has been established by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases.