8-letter words containing a, t, e
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- aculeate — cutting; pointed
- acutance — a physical rather than subjective measure of the sharpness of a photographic image
- acylated — to introduce the acyl group into (a compound).
- ad litem — (formerly, esp of a guardian) appointed for a lawsuit
- adamsite — a yellow poisonous crystalline solid that readily sublimes; diphenylaminechlorarsine. It is used in chemical warfare as a vomiting agent. Formula: C6H4AsClNHC6H4; relative density: 1.65; melting pt: 195°C; boiling pt: 410°C
- adapters — Plural form of adapter.
- adaptive — Adaptive means having the ability or tendency to adapt to different situations.
- addebted — indebted
- addicted — Someone who is addicted to a harmful drug cannot stop taking it.
- addiment — (immunology,archaic) synonym of complement.
- additive — An additive is a substance which is added in small amounts to foods or other things in order to improve them or to make them last longer.
- adducent — that adducts
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adelbert — a masculine name
- adenitis — inflammation of a gland or lymph node
- adequate — If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
- adespota — anonymous works of poetry
- adfected — (algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
- adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
- adjacent — If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other.
- adjugate — adjoint (def 1).
- adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships
- adjuster — An adjuster is a device which allows you to alter a piece of equipment's position or setting.
- adjutage — a nozzle or tube attached to a vessel to allow the discharge of liquid
- admitted — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- admittee — a person who has been (or will be) admitted
- admitter — a person who admits or something which admits
- adoptees — Plural form of adoptee.
- adopters — Plural form of adopter.
- adoptive — Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.
- adrastea — a small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1979
- adulated — Simple past tense and past participle of adulate.
- adultery — If a married person commits adultery, they have sex with someone that they are not married to.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- adverted — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- aegirite — a mineral of the pyroxene group, NaFeSi2O6, commonly found in alkaline igneous rocks
- aegrotat — (in British and certain other universities, and, sometimes, schools) a certificate allowing a candidate to pass an examination although he has missed all or part of it through illness
- aegyptus — a king of Egypt and twin brother of Danaüs
- aerating — Present participle of aerate.
- aeration — Aeration is the application of upward-flowing air to a layer of particles.
- aerators — Plural form of aerator.
- aerodart — a steel arrow dropped from an aircraft as a weapon
- aeroduct — an air duct
- aerolite — a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
- aerolith — a meteorite consisting mainly of stony matter.
- aeronaut — a person who flies in a lighter-than-air craft, esp the pilot or navigator
- aerostat — a lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon