8-letter words containing lo
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- bullocky — the driver of a team of bullocks
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- c-prolog — (language, Prolog) An implementation of Prolog in C, developed by F. Pereira <[email protected]> et al in July 1982. It had no garbage collection. It is not in the public domain.
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- cabrillo — Juan Rodríguez [rod-ree-ges] /rɒdˈri gɛs/ (Show IPA), (Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho) 1499?–1543, Spanish explorer, born in Portugal: discovered California.
- cachalot — sperm whale
- cacology — a bad choice of words; faulty speech
- callaloo — the leaves of the taro, or, sometimes, other plants, cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calloway — Cab(ell) 1907–1994, U.S. jazz bandleader and singer.
- caloocan — a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.
- calories — Thermodynamics. Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal. (usually initial capital letter) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal.
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calotype — an early photographic process invented by W. H. Fox Talbot, in which the image was produced on paper treated with silver iodide and developed by sodium thiosulphite
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- cannelon — a dish consisting of a roll of puff pastry stuffed with minced meat or a sweet filling
- car-load — the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
- carillon — a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
- carloads — Plural form of carload.
- carlotta — a feminine name
- cartload — the amount a cart can hold
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- castillo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Cánovas del Castillo del Rey) 1908–1984, Spanish fashion designer.
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- cattalos — Plural form of cattalo.
- caudillo — (in Spanish-speaking countries) a military or political leader
- caulonia — a town in S Calabria, in S Italy: ruins of ancient Achaean colony.
- cefaclor — a cephalosporin antibiotic, C 15 H 14 ClN 3 O 4 , used in the treatment of infections.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cetology — the branch of zoology concerned with the study of whales (cetaceans)
- chadlock — Alternative form of charlock.
- chalonic — of or relating to a chalone
- chaology — the study of chaos theory
- charlock — a weedy Eurasian plant, Sinapis arvensis (or Brassica kaber), with hairy stems and foliage and yellow flowers: family: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- chillout — (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.
- chilopod — any arthropod of the class Chilopoda, which includes the centipedes
- chip log — a log for determining a vessel's speed, consisting of a wooden chip tossed overboard at the end of a line that is marked off in lengths of 47 feet 3 inches; the speed is calculated by counting the number of such intervals that pass overboard in a 28-second interval
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.