8-letter words containing a, t, e, n, o
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autotune — a software package that automatically manipulates a recording of a vocal track until it is in tune regardless of whether or not the original performance was in tune
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- banknote — Banknotes are pieces of paper money.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bayonets — Plural form of bayonet.
- bean pot — a heavy, covered crockery or metal pot, suitable for the slow cooking of beans, stews, etc.
- beantown — Boston
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- benthoal — relating to deep-sea plants and animals
- benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- boeotian — a native or inhabitant of Boeotia, a region of ancient Greece
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- botanize — to collect or study plants
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- canzonet — a short, sprightly song
- capstone — one of a set of slabs on the top of a wall, building, etc
- carleton — Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 1724–1808, English general.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- cheat on — If someone cheats on their husband, wife, or partner, they have a sexual relationship with another person.
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place
- 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.