8-letter words starting with c
- campeche — a state of SE Mexico, on the SW of the Yucatán peninsula: forestry and fishing. Capital: Campeche. Pop: 205 000 (2005 est). Area: 56 114 sq km (21 666 sq miles)
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- 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
- camphire — henna
- camphone — a combined mobile phone and digital camera
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- 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.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campness — the quality of being camp
- camporee — a local meeting or assembly of Scouts
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- campus's — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- camshaft — A camshaft is a rod in an engine and works to change circular motion into motion up and down or from side to side.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- 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
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candelas — Plural form of candela.
- candidal — relating to candida
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- candyass — a timid or cowardly person; sissy.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- candyman — a drug-dealer, esp one who targets young people
- cane rat — a tropical African cavy-like hystricomorph rodent, Thryonomys swinderianus, that lives in swampy regions: family Thryonomyidae
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum