8-letter words starting with ca
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captains — Plural form of captain.
- captchas — Plural form of captcha.
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- captived — Simple past tense and past participle of captive.
- captives — Plural form of captive; persons held prisoner.
- 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.
- capuccio — a capuche
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- car bomb — A car bomb is a bomb which is inside a car, van, or truck.
- car boot — the place at the back of a car for putting luggage in
- car card — a sheet of cardboard bearing an advertising message for display, as in subway cars, buses, and trains.
- car coat — a short man's coat, designed to be worn when driving a car
- car hire — the act of renting a car
- car keys — a key or keys used to lock, unlock, and operate an automobile
- car line — trolley line.
- car park — A car park is an area or building where people can leave their cars.
- car part — a component of an automobile
- car pool — A car pool is an arrangement where a group of people take turns driving each other to work, or driving each other's children to school. In American English, car pool is sometimes used to refer simply to people travelling together in a car.
- car port — A car port is a shelter for cars which is attached to a house and consists of a flat roof supported on pillars.
- 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
- car sick — If someone feels car sick, they feel sick as a result of traveling in a car.
- car wash — a place or structure having special equipment for washing automobiles.
- car-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- car-pool — Also, carpooling, car pooling. an arrangement among a group of automobile owners by which each owner in turn drives the others or their children to and from a designated place.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- caracals — Plural form of caracal.
- caracara — any of various large carrion-eating diurnal birds of prey of the genera Caracara, Polyborus, etc, of S North, Central, and South America, having long legs and naked faces: family Falconidae (falcons)
- caracole — a half turn to the right or left
- caragana — any of various shrubs and small trees with golden flowers of the genus Caragana and of the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and east Europe and widely planted in North America as windbreaks
- carageen — carrageen
- caramels — Plural form of caramel.
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
- caravans — Plural form of caravan.
- caravels — Plural form of caravel.
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carbamyl — a radical, NH2CO, that is derived from carbamic acid
- carbanil — phenyl isocyanate.
- carbarns — Plural form of carbarn.
- carbaryl — an organic compound of the carbamate group: used as an insecticide, esp to treat head lice
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.