8-letter words containing c, a, t, e
- activize — to make active
- actoress — Alternative form of actress.
- actressy — exaggerated and affected in manner; theatrical
- actuated — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- 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).
- addicted — Someone who is addicted to a harmful drug cannot stop taking it.
- adducent — that adducts
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adfected — (algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
- adjacent — If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- aeroduct — an air duct
- aetheric — ether (defs 3–5).
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- affecter — a person who makes a real or pretence show of liking, being, or knowing something
- agaçante — irritating
- agenetic — absence of or failed development of a body part.
- agrestic — rural; rustic
- aguacate — an avocado
- akinetic — without motion, unmoving
- albacete — a city in SE Spain: metal goods manufacturing. Pop: 155 142 (2003 est)
- alcahest — the universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
- alcestis — the wife of king Admetus of Thessaly. To save his life, she died in his place, but was rescued from Hades by Hercules
- alcithoe — a daughter of Minyas who was driven mad for mocking Dionysus.
- alicante — a port in SE Spain: commercial centre. Pop: 305 911 (2003 est)
- allecret — a half suit of light plate armor.
- alleycat — a homeless cat that roams in back streets
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- altrices — altricial birds
- ammocete — ammocoete
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amuletic — having the qualities of a charm
- analcite — a white, grey, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated sodium aluminium silicate in cubic crystalline form. Formula: NaAlSi2O6.H2O
- analecta — Analects.
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anecdata — anecdotal evidence based on personal observations or opinions, random investigations, etc., but presented as fact: biased arguments supported by anecdata.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.