8-letter words containing a, i, n, e
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- hindhead — the back of the head
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- ianthine — having a violet colour
- ibn-ezra — Abraham Ben Meir. 1093–1167, Jewish poet, scholar, and traveller, born in Spain
- ibogaine — an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- idea man — a person who is capable of and responsible for providing original ideas.
- ideating — to form an idea, thought, or image of.
- ideation — the process of forming ideas or images.
- ignatiev — Count Nikolai Pavlovich. 1832–1908, Russian diplomat and politician. As ambassador to Turkey (1864–77), he negotiated the Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ending the Russo-Turkish War
- imagines — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- immanent — remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
- immantle — to cover with a mantle
- immanuel — the name of the Messiah as prophesied by Isaiah, often represented in Christian exegesis as being Jesus Christ. Isa. 7:14.
- impanate — (of the body of Christ) contained in the bread of the Eucharist
- impanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impanel.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in haste — in a hurried way
- in large — as a totality or on a broad scale
- in phase — having the same phase.
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- in shape — person: physically fit
- in spate — When a river is in spate it contains a lot more water than usual and is flowing very fast.
- in state — to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- in tears — crying, weeping
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inarable — Not arable.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- inaurate — gilded or gleaming as if gilded
- incanted — Simple past tense and past participle of incant.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- indagate — to investigate; research.
- indamine — any of a series of basic organic compounds, the simplest having the formula C 12 H 11 N 3 , which form bluish and greenish salts, used in the manufacture of dyes.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- induciae — the time limit given for a defendant to appear in court after first receiving a citation to appear
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.