8-letter words containing a, c, n
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- calfskin — Calfskin shoes and clothing are made from the skin of a calf.
- califont — a gas water heater
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- calmness — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- calycine — relating to, belonging to, or resembling a calyx
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- cam ranh — a port in SE Vietnam: large natural harbour, used at times as a naval base by French, Japanese, US, and Russian forces successively. Pop: 147 000 (2006 est)
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cameleon — Obsolete form of chameleon.
- camelina — The plant Camelina sativa, sometimes cultivated for oilseed.
- cameline — a material made from camel hair
- cameroon — a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons (administered by Britain) and Cameroun (administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria); became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221 (2013 est). Area: 475 500 sq km (183 591 sq miles)
- cameroun — Cameroon
- campagna — a low-lying plain surrounding Rome, Italy: once fertile, it deteriorated to malarial marshes; but has since been reclaimed. Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- campaign — A campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change.
- campania — a region of SW Italy: includes the islands of Capri and Ischia. Chief town: Naples. Pop: 5 725 098 (2003 est). Area: 13 595 sq km (5248 sq miles)
- camphane — a terpene hyrdocarbon, C10H18, that is both saturated and inert
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- camphine — rectified oil of turpentine
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campinas — a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state: centre of a rich agricultural region, producing esp coffee. Pop: 2 640 000 (2005 est)
- campions — Plural form of campion.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- canadian — Canadian means belonging or relating to Canada, or to its people or culture.
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaille — the masses; mob; rabble
- canalise — (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
- canalize — to provide with or convert into a canal or canals
- canaller — a person who works on a canal boat
- canarese — of or relating to Kanara, a part of the Maharashtra province in W India.
- canaries — Plural form of canary.
- canastas — Plural form of canasta.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canberra — the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory: founded in 1913 as a planned capital. Pop: 345 257 (2008)
- canceled — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- canceler — A device used to cancel something, especially one that makes a cancellation on a postage stamp.
- cancelli — strips that form a latticework
- cancered — affected by cancer
- cancrine — resembling a crab