8-Letter Words Starting C & Ending US

• an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea

• Of, relating to, or containing chromium, especially in oxidation state 2

• inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

• extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally

• East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu

• difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

• (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus

• an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes