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8-letter words starting with car

  • cartable — Able to be carted or carried.
  • carteret — John, 1st Earl Granville. 1690–1763, British statesman, diplomat, and orator who led the opposition to Walpole (1730–42), after whose fall he became a leading minister as secretary of state (1742–44)
  • carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
  • cartland — Dame Barbara (Hamilton). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction
  • cartload — the amount a cart can hold
  • cartoons — Plural form of cartoon.
  • cartoony — cartoonish
  • cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
  • cartroad — a rough track or road in a rural area
  • carucage — the tax due on a carucate
  • carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
  • caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
  • carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
  • carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
  • carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
  • carvings — Plural form of carving.
  • caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure
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