8-letter words containing a, u, t, e, i
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- mutative — to change; alter.
- mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- outasite — amazing; excellent
- outraise — To raise more of something than someone else; often used specifically in reference to fundraising.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- putative — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- re-audit — an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- suivante — a lady's maid or companion, particularly in 17th century France, who was elevated among other servants and served as a confidante and particular companion for her mistress
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- taqueria — a restaurant or stand specializing in Mexican dishes, as tacos and burritos.
- temirtau — a city in E central Kazakhstan, NW of Karaganda.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- titubate — to stagger