8-letter words containing a, c, e, n, t
- cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- changeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'change'.
- changteh — Changde
- chantage — the use of threats to extort money; blackmail
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chanteys — Plural form of chantey.
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- chastens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chasten.
- chatline — People phone in to chatlines to have conversations with other people who have also phoned in.
- cheat on — If someone cheats on their husband, wife, or partner, they have a sexual relationship with another person.
- cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
- cineaste — an enthusiast for films
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- citrange — a hybrid orange
- clap-net — a net, used esp by entomologists, that can be closed instantly by pulling a string
- clarinet — A clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family in the shape of a pipe. You play the clarinet by blowing into it and covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
- clavinet — An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
- cleanest — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleaneth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clean.
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place
- cleating — a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support: He nailed cleats into the sides of the bookcase to keep the supports from slipping.
- cliental — a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- coattend — to attend jointly
- cognates — Plural form of cognate.
- coinmate — a fellow inmate
- coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- conchate — conchiform
- conepati — hog-nosed skunk (def 2).
- conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- conneaut — a city in NE Ohio.
- constate — to affirm
- contessa — an Italian countess
- contrate — (of gears, esp the gears of watches) having teeth set at a right angle to the axis
- coparent — a fellow parent
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- cosecant — (of an angle) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to that of the opposite side; the reciprocal of sine
- cotenant — a person who holds property jointly or in common with others
- cotquean — a coarse woman
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells