8-letter words containing a, s, t, r
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- cabarets — Plural form of cabaret.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- caltrops — Plural form of caltrop.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- capstern — Misspelling of capstan.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- 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
- carditis — inflammation of the heart
- carnitas — A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- carports — Plural form of carport.
- cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- castrati — a male singer, especially in the 18th century, castrated before puberty to prevent his soprano or contralto voice range from changing.
- castrato — (in 17th- and 18th-century opera) a male singer whose testicles were removed before puberty, allowing the retention of a soprano or alto voice
- castries — the capital and chief port of St Lucia. Pop: 14 000 (2005 est)
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- catchers — Plural form of catcher.
- caterans — Plural form of cateran.
- caterers — Plural form of caterer.
- cateress — a female caterer
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- 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.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- chariots — Plural form of chariot.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charters — Plural form of charter.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chatters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chatter.
- cheaters — eyeglasses, esp. dark glasses
- chrystal — Obsolete spelling of crystal.
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- citharas — Plural form of cithara.
- citrates — Plural form of citrate.
- clatters — Plural form of clatter.