8-letter words containing r, a, c, o, n
- corpsman — a medical orderly or stretcher-bearer
- corrigan — Mairead [muh-reyd] /məˈreɪd/ (Show IPA), born 1944, Northern Irish peace activist: Nobel Peace Prize 1976.
- corsican — of or relating to Corsica or its inhabitants
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- crampons — Plural form of crampon.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- cranford — a township in NE New Jersey.
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- crannoge — Alt form crannog.
- crannogs — Plural form of crannog.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- croaking — Present participle of croak.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- cromalin — a colour proofing system
- cromorna — a reed stop in an organ giving an oboe-like tone
- cropland — an area of land on which crops are grown
- crosland — Anthony. 1918–77, British Labour politician and socialist theorist, author of The Future of Socialism (1957)
- crossman — Richard (Howard Stafford). 1907–74, British Labour politician. His diaries, published posthumously as the Crossman Papers (1975), revealed details of cabinet discussions
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- dormancy — the state of being dormant.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- encroach — Intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- fornical — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.