8-letter words containing a, t, e, n
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- ectozoan — ectozoon.
- edentate — belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elastane — An elastic polyurethane material, used for hosiery, underwear, and other close-fitting clothing.
- elaterin — An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- emanated — (of something abstract but perceptible) Issue or spread out from (a source).
- emanates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emanate.
- emendate — (obsolete) emended, corrected, restored.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- en avant — forward; onward; ahead
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- enaction — The process of enacting something.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- enacture — an enactment
- enanthem — (pathology) A lesion of the mucous membrane (especially of the mouth).
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- enaunter — in case that
- encastre — (of a beam) fixed at the ends
- enchants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enchant.
- enchaunt — Obsolete form of enchant.
- end date — day when sth finishes or closes
- endostea — Plural form of endosteum.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- endurant — Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
- enervate — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- engrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engraft.
- enneract — (mathematics) A nine-dimensional hypercube.
- enstated — Simple past tense and past participle of enstate.
- enswathe — Envelop or wrap in a garment or piece of fabric.
- entailed — Simple past tense and past participle of entail.
- entameba — any of a genus (Entamoeba) of amoebas parasitic in vertebrates, esp. a species (E. histolytica) causing amoebic dysentery
- entangle — Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
- entastic — characterized by spasms
- enterate — having an intestine separate from the outer wall of the body
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- enthrall — Capture the fascinated attention of.
- enthrals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enthral.
- entozoal — relating to entozoon
- entrails — A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.
- entrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrain.
- entrance — An opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place.