8-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- carcanet — a jewelled collar or necklace
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carnatic — a region of S India, between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel Coast: originally the country of the Kanarese; historically important as a rich and powerful trading centre; now part of Tamil Nadu state
- carnitas — A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- cartland — Dame Barbara (Hamilton). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- cartoony — cartoonish
- casement — A casement or a casement window is a window that opens by means of hinges, usually at the side.
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castanet — either of a pair of concave pieces of wood held in the palm of the hand and clicked together, usually to accompany dancing.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- 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
- catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
- 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
- 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.
- caterina — a female given name, form of Catherine.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.
- cathleen — a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.
- catiline — Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)
- cationic — a positively charged ion that is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
- catwoman — (rare) A woman in a cat costume.
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cavatina — a solo song resembling a simple aria
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- changeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'change'.
- changteh — Changde
- chantage — the use of threats to extort money; blackmail