Are your little kids speaking all day without any break? Do you wish to strengthen their vocabulary with some widely-used English words?
If you are feeling that it is vital to improve the communication skills of your kids, then you must start their vocabulary lessons at a young age to assist them in having a strong and vast vocabulary.
If you feel the same way, then, let us talk about some interesting 8 letter words that start with the letter C.
Here we go…
List Of 8-Letter Words Starting With C
caatinga | a sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees |
cabalism | occultism |
cabalist | one of a group that acts in harmony |
caballed | past tense for to make secret plans, typically jointly with others |
caballer | one of a group that acts in harmony |
cabarets | staged forms of entertainment/ plural for a nightclub or restaurant where cabaret is performed |
cabassou | the southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America |
cabbaged | to have dispossessed someone of something |
cabbages | plural for an edible plant having a head of green leaves |
cabbagey | resembling cabbage |
Cabdella | a town in Vall Fosca, Catalonia |
cabernet | wine from dark-colored grapes |
cabestro | a trained steer used in bullfighting |
cabezone | alternative of cabezon, meaning a California fish , allied to the sculpin |
Cabildos | plural for cabildo, a local government council in some Spanish-speaking communities |
Cabindan | of or pertaining to Cabinda |
cabinets | general term for objects, not necessarily just furniture, that occupy space/ plural for a cupboard with shelves or drawers |
cabining | present participle of cabin, a private room on a ship/ a compartment on land made of logs |
Cabirean | relating to Cabeiri, a group of enigmatic chthonic deities worshiped by a mystery cult |
Cabirian | relating to the Cabeiri of Cabiria |
cableway | a system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung |
cablings | plural of cabling, meaning a collection of cables |
cabobbed | (archaic) kebabbed |
caboched | showing the full face, but nothing of the neck/ said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing |
cabochon | a precious stone, typically a single crystal |
caboodle | a large unit of things or people |
cabooses | plural for the last car on a freight train/ plural for a room or area for preparing and cooking food |
caboshed | shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears |
cabotage | the transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country |
cabrales | types of cheese (a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk) |
Cabrilla | any of various edible fishes of Serranus and related genera, inhabiting the Mediterranean |
cabriole | a type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne |
cabstand | a place where taxis wait for passengers/ a taxi rank |
cacafogo | alternative form of cacafuego, meaning a spitfire/ a braggart |
cacation | (archaic) excretion |
cachalot | a whale, the largest of the toothed whales |
cachepot | an ornamental container for a flowerpot |
cacheted | simple past and past participle of cachet, meaning a seal, as of a letter/ a special quality |
cachette | a hidden nook/ a hiding place |
cachexia | an illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions |
cacholot | archaic form of cachalot, meaning the sperm whale |
cachucha | a dance, in triple time and related to the flamenco and fandango, from Andalusia |
caciques | plural for local chief |
cackiest | superlative form of cacky, meaning characterized by or pertaining to excrement/ worthless |
cacklers | plural for one who laughs or has a tendency to laugh/ plural for one who talks to excess |
cackling | present participle to laugh in a loud or harsh way/ to engage in unimportant conversation |
cacodoxy | incorrect doctrine or opinions |
cacolets | plural for a camel chair or litter |
cacology | a grammatical mistake in speech or writing |
cacomixl | the ring-tailed civet cat |
caconyms | plural for an incorrect name for something, especially in taxonomic classification |
caconymy | the use of a caconym |
cactuses | plural for a family of flowering succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate |
cadavers | plural for a dead body, especially the corpse of a human to be dissected |
caddying | present participle for caddy, meaning one hired to assist another in playing the game of golf |
cadenced | having a regular, rhythmic cadence/ moving in a pulsating manner |
cadences | plural for a modulation of a voice or sound/ plural for the conclusion of a musical passage |
cadenzas | plural for a part of music that is very decorative and is played by a single musician |
cadherin | any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure |
Cadillac | a brand of luxury automobile, now part of the General Motors group |
cadinene | any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil |
cadmiums | plural of cadmium, meaning a metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 48 |
caducean | of or relating to Mercury’s caduceus, or wand |
caduceus | a stick or a staff/ stick or rod used in magic |
Caesarea | an ancient city of Asia Minor, the capital of Cappadocia, on the site of modern Kayseri, Turkey |
caesious | having a blue color very low in chroma |
caesurae | plural for a pause or interruption in a music, poem, building, or other work of art |
caesural | of or pertaining to a caesura |
caesuras | plural for a pause or interruption in a music, poem, building, or other work of art |
caesuric | of or pertaining to a caesura |
cafestol | a diterpene molecule present in coffee |
caffeine | a beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water |
caffeism | a toxic condition caused by excessive ingestion of coffee and other caffeine-containing drinks |
caffilas | alternative form of cafila, meaning a caravan of travelers or supplies |
caftaned | alternative form of kaftanned, meaning dressed in a kaftan |
cagebird | a bird kept in a cage |
cagefuls | plural of cageful, meaning that which can fit into a cage |
cageless | without a cage |
cagelike | like a cage |
cageling | a bird that is kept confined in a cage |
cagework | a cage or cage-like structure |
caginess | the ability to come to sensible conclusions/ reluctance to give information on account of suspicion |
Cagilari | province of Sardinia, Italy |
cagoules | plural for a lightweight waterproof parka |
Cahuilla | a member of a group of Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California |
Caiaphas | a Jewish high priest in the first century CE who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus |
caillach | alternative form of cailleach, meaning an old woman |
caimacam | the governor of a sanjak in Turkey |
Cainites | plural for Cainite, meaning a descendant of Cain/ a member of a Gnostic sect that honored Cain |
Cairenes | plural for Cairene, meaning of or pertaining to Cairo, the capital of Egypt |
caissons | plural for a floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and lift object |
caitiffs | plural for a base vor despicable person/ plural for a person who lacks courage |
caitives | plural of caitive, meaning a captive (obsolete) |
Caitlins | plural of Caitlin, meaning a female given given name of Gaelic, Irish, and Irish Gaelic origin |
cajolers | plural for one who flatters |
cajolery | coaxing or flattery intended to persuade someone to do something/ an expression of praise |
cajoling | present participle for to flatter someone in an attempt to persuade them |
cakehole | a person’s mouth |
cakewalk | something that is easily done/ a paved public walk, typically one along the seafront at a resort |
cakiness | the quality of being caky |
calabash | a device for smoking tobacco, with a bowl and a narrow tube/ a domesticated melon-like plant |
calabaza | a domesticated plant, similar to the squash or melon |
Calabria | a region of southern Italy |
caladium | any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar |
calamari | cephalopod mollusk |
calamars | plural of calamar, meaning a squid |
calamary | a squid |
calamata | variant of kalamata olive, a small-fruited olive traditionally grown around Kalamata, Greece |
Calamian | of or relating to a group of islands in the Philippine province of Palawan |
calamine | an amorphous solid, ZnO, white when pure but often pale yellow, used in pigments |
calamint | any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha |
calamite | a genus of extinct treelike horsetails, Calamites |
calamity | a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action |
calandra | a bird especially in the species Melanocorypha calandra of the Mediterranean region |
calanthe | any plant of the genus Calanthe |
calashes | plural of calash, a sort of light convertible carriage with a folding hood |
calathea | any of the genus Calathea of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae |
calathus | a vase-shaped basket made from reeds or twigs, used in Ancient Greece |
calcanea | plural for the large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone |
calcific | pertaining to calcification/ relating to the formation of eggshells in birds and reptiles |
calcined | past tense for partially burn so as to blacken the surface |
calcines | partially burn so as to blacken the surface |
calcites | plural for calcium carbonate crystal |
calcitic | pertaining to, resembling, or composed of calcite |
calciums | plural for the chemical element of atomic number 20 |
calcrete | a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, it can cemented together with other materials |
calcular | any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules |
calculus | a stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ |
Calcutta | the state capital of West Bengal, India, (formerly known) |
caldaria | plural of caldarium, meaning in modern spas, a room with a hot floor |
calderas | plural for a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object |
caldrons | plural for a vessel for cooking food, typically using steam/ plural for a dish or bowl of food |
Caldwell | a locality in Alberta, Canada/ a town in New South Wales/ a city in Kansas/ a village in Ohio |
caleches | plural of caleches, meaning a type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses |
calefied | simple past tense and past participle of calefy, meaning to make hot or warm |
calendar | a system by which time is sequenced and divided by days, weeks, months, and years |
Calexico | a city in southern California near the border with Mexico |
calfless | having no or extremely reduced calvescalflike |
calflike | resembling a calf, or some aspect of one |
calfskin | a fine leather made from the hide of a calf |
calibers | plural for the standard reached by someone or something/ for the diameter of a round body |
caliceal | relating to a calyx |
caliches | plural for the sodium salt of nitric acid (NaNO3) |
calicoes | plural for woven or felted fabric made from cotton, wool, or a similar fiber |
calidity | the property of being torrid |
Caliente | an unincorporated community in California/ a city in Nevada |
califate | meaning a unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph |
calipash | the edible greenish material found underneath the upper half of a turtle’s carapace |
calipers | plural for a device fitted to something, in particular a weak or injured part of the body |
caliphal | of or relating to a caliph or a caliphate |
calisaya | a valuable Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona calisaya and closely related species |
calivers | plural of caliver, meaning a type of light musket |
callable | an object of a type that can be called, such as a function |
callaloo | any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genus Xanthosoma |
callants | plural for lad, boy |
callback | running gag |
callboys | plural of callboy, who summons actors when their presence is required for a performance |
callings | plural for a profession/ plural for a cry or yell, made to attract someone’s attention |
calliope | a musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard |
Callisto | a Greek nymph of Artemis/ a moon of Jupiter |
callosal | of or pertaining to the corpus callosum |
callosum | a broad band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain |
callower | comparative for immature, or lacking in experience |
calmness | the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled/ a state of having happy thoughts |
calomels | plural of calomel, or mercurous chloride, formerly used as a laxative and disinfectant |
calories | the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by 1 degree C |
calorize | to form a surface on a ferrous metal by coating with aluminum powder and then heating |
calorist | a scientist who favored the caloric theory, dealing with the hypothetical medium of heat |
calottes | zucchetto |
calotype | an early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide |
Some Other Examples Of 8-Letter Words Starting With C
Caamanos | Cabellos | Cabezons |
cabombas | Cabrejas | cabresta |
cabresto | cabretta | Caccamos |
cachexia | cachexic | Cacholas |
cacodyles | cacumina | cadaster |
cadastre | Caddells | caddices |
caddised | caddises | caddlles |
cadgiest | Cadigans | Cadogans |
Cadottes | Cadwells | caecally |
caecitis | caesiums | caffeins |
Caffreys | Cafieros | caganers |
cagyness | Cahalans | Caiazzos |
Caicedos | Caitlyns | cajaputs |
cajeputs | cajuputs | Calabros |
Calahans | calaloos | calathos |
Calaways | Calberts | calcanei |
Calcanos | calcaria | calceate |
Calcotes | calcspar | calctufa |
calctuff | calendal | calender |
calefies | calendry | Calhoons |
calibred | calipees | Caliphas |
calicles | Calippic | Calixtes |
calkings | Callaeci | Callafan |
Callejas | Callerys | callgirl |
Calliers | Callinus | callunas |
callused | calluses | calmants |
calmings | caloyers | calpacks |
calpains | calpolli | calquing |
calthrop | Caltrans | caltraps |
caltrops | calumets | calutron |
calvados | Calverts | calycate |
calyceal | calycine | calycled |
calycles | calyculi | calypsos |
calypter | calyptra | calzones |
camarons | camailed | camaieux |
Interesting Activities For Kids With 8-Letter Words Starting With C
Sometimes, you may feel that it is really important to teach your little kids a few useful new words, right? However, all of your efforts may become futile if your cute partners do not understand how or where to use them.
So, to avoid this issue, one of the essential things is to engage your little companions in some enticing game-like activities. Here are a few of those appealing learning activities.
1. Name Game
This is an incredibly attractive method through which you can teach your children some useful 8 letter words that start with the third letter C, and also show them the correct way to use those words. In this game, you must ask or say something and your little companion will give the answer.
Also, you can play this name game in the opposite direction. For example, your child will ask the question and you will have to give the correct answer. Hence, through this interesting game, you can show your cute partners some interesting 8 letter words starting with the letter C.
Examples:
Q: What do we call a sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil containing drought-resistant trees?
Ans: Caatinga
Q: What do we call a trained steer used in bullfighting?
Ans: Cabestro
Q: What would you call a system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung?
Ans: Cableway
Q: What do we call the act of showing the full face, but nothing of the neck?
Ans: Caboched
Q: What would you call something like the transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country?
Ans: Cabotage
Q: What would you call a type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal?
Ans: Cabriole
2. Fill In The Blanks
Another very important yet quite easy activity is widely known as fill-in-the-blanks. Through this learning game, you may show your children some vital 8 letter words that start with C.
Through this method, your little learners will not only be able to learn some new words without any difficulty but also to utilize them correctly. Moreover, this kind of easy-to-enjoy word-game will be of incredible help for their future studies.
Examples:
C_bstand
Ca_macam
Call_ack
Caati_ga
Calo_ize
Cagebi_d
- A 2) I 3) B 4) N 5)R 6) R
3. Match The Words With Meanings
A matching activity is another quite famous game that can help your little partners to explore some new English words. Through this method, your child will be able to get a hold of the concepts of the same and different. For this, you will need to arrange for two sets of attractive cards.
One set will contain some colorful pictures, while the other will have some new 8 letter words starting with C, such as cagebird, cagelike, caffeine, cagefuls, cajolery, calabash, calamary, and many more.
Then, you have to tell your little partners how to read those scrabble cards and the right way to match them with the right words.
Furthermore, you have to show your kids how to perform the matching activity and encourage them to follow the steps previously shown by you.
Conclusion
Thus, these are some useful learning activities to show your kids some new 8 letter words starting with the letter C. However, if you need additional help, just remember to follow us.
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