8-letter words containing a, b, r, c
- cab-over — a truck tractor or other vehicle in which the cab is located over the engine.
- caballer — a person who cabals
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabernet — a type of grape
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- caboceer — (formerly) an African native appointed by his leader to supply European slave traders with slaves
- cabrales — A moderately hard blue cheese, from Spain, made from goat or sheep milk.
- cabretta — a soft leather obtained from the skins of certain South American or African sheep
- cabrilla — any of various serranid food fishes, esp Epinephelus analogus, occurring in warm seas around Florida and the Caribbean
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cabriole — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- café bar — A café bar is a café where you can also buy alcoholic drinks.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- calabria — a region of SW Italy: mostly mountainous and subject to earthquakes. Chief town: Reggio di Calabria. Pop: 2 007 392 (2003 est). Area: 15 080 sq km (5822 sq miles)
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calibres — Plural form of calibre.
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- 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-bomb — a bomb placed in a vehicle and wired to explode when the ignition is started, by remote control, or by a timing device.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- 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.
- carbines — Plural form of carbine.
- carbinol — methanol
- 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.
- carbolic — of or derived from carbolic acid.
- carbonic — (of a compound) containing carbon, esp tetravalent carbon
- carbonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group =CO
- carborne — travelling by car
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- caribees — See under Antilles.
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carlsbad — a town in S California.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
- cash bar — A cash bar is a bar at a party or similar event where guests can buy drinks.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catbrier — any prickly vines of the genus Smilax, such as greenbrier