8-letter words starting with cat
- cat cafe — a business establishment that has numerous cats available for customers to play with, and usually offers food and drinks.
- cat door — a small door or flap in a larger door through which a cat can pass
- cat flap — opening in door for cat
- cat flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- cat food — tinned food for cats
- cat line — A cat line is a thin cable which is used with other equipment to move small parts of a rig or drill string.
- cat scan — CT scan
- cat suit — a jumpsuit.
- cat yawl — a yawl having the mainmast close to the stem and the after mast on the counter.
- cat-eyed — having eyes resembling those of a cat.
- cat-foot — to move in the soft, stealthy manner of a cat; pussyfoot.
- cat-lick — a quick wash
- cat-tail — any tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha, especially T. latifolia, having long, sword-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical clusters of minute brown flowers.
- catacomb — Catacombs are ancient underground passages and rooms, especially under a city, where people used to be buried.
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catalase — an enzyme that catalyses the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catalpas — Plural form of catalpa.
- catalufa — any of several bigeyes, as Pristigenys serrula (popeye catalufa) found in the Pacific Ocean.
- catalyse — If something catalyses a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
- catalyze — If something catalyzes a thing or a situation, it makes it active.
- catamite — a boy kept for sexual purposes
- cataphor — a word that refers to or stands for another word used later
- catapult — A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- cataract — Cataracts are layers over a person's eyes that prevent them from seeing properly. Cataracts usually develop because of old age or illness.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catboats — Plural form of catboat.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier
- catcalls — Plural form of catcall.
- catch at — to try to catch
- catch it — to be scolded or reprimanded
- catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- catch-22 — If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
- catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchall — A catchall is a term or category which includes many different things.
- catchcry — a well-known, frequently used phrase, esp one associated with a particular group, etc
- catchers — Plural form of catcher.
- catchfly — any of several caryophyllaceous plants of the genus Silene that have sticky calyxes and stems on which insects are sometimes trapped
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- catechin — a soluble yellow solid substance found in catechu and mahogany wood and used in tanning and dyeing. Formula: C15H14O6
- catechol — a colourless crystalline phenol found in resins and lignins; 1,2-dihydroxybenzene. It is used as a photographic developer. Formula: C6H4(OH)2
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catenane — a type of chemical compound in which the molecules have two or more rings that are interlocked like the links of a chain
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- catenate — to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- caterans — Plural form of cateran.
- caterers — Plural form of caterer.
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