8-letter words containing c, e, n
- akinetic — without motion, unmoving
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alchuine — (Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- alcidine — of, relating to, or belonging to the Alcidae, a family of sea birds including the auks, guillemots, puffins, and related forms
- alcmaeon — a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.
- alebench — a bench inside or in front of an alehouse
- alicante — a port in SE Spain: commercial centre. Pop: 305 911 (2003 est)
- alliance — An alliance is a group of countries or political parties that are formally united and working together because they have similar aims.
- ambiance — the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu: The restaurant had a delightful ambiance.
- ambience — The ambience of a place is the character and atmosphere that it seems to have.
- amelcorn — a variety of wheat used to produce starch
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amorance — the state of being in love
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- analcime — a hard, colorless or white zeolite, NaAlSi2O6·H2O, commonly found in basalts
- 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.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconeal — Of or pertaining to the elbow.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- 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.
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- angelica — Angelica is the candied stems of the angelica plant which can be used in making cakes or sweets.
- angelico — Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
- anthemic — (of a song) like an anthem in being rousing or uplifting.
- antiacne — inhibiting the development of acne
- anticize — to play absurdly, or perform antics
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- anyplace — Anyplace means the same as anywhere.
- apachean — a subgroup of the Athabaskan language family comprising the languages of the Apache tribes and the Navajo.