8-letter words containing c, e, t, o
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- cytogeny — (biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis.
- cytokine — any of various proteins, secreted by cells, that carry signals to neighbouring cells. Cytokines include interferon
- cytosine — a white crystalline pyrimidine occurring in nucleic acids; 6-amino-2-hydroxy pyrimidine. Formula: C4H5N3O
- cytosome — the body of a cell excluding its nucleus
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information
- de dicto — relating to the expression of a belief, possibility, etc, rather than to the individuals mentioned, as in the number of the planets is the number of satellites of the sun, the truth of which is independent of what number that is
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- diestock — a frame for holding a number of standard threaded dies for cutting screw threads.
- director — a person or thing that directs.
- docetism — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- docetist — One who believes in docetism.
- docherty — Pete. born 1979, English rock musician and songwriter; member of The Libertines (1997–2004) and Babyshambles (from 2005)
- docketed — Simple past tense and past participle of docket.
- doctored — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- document — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dolcetto — a variety of grape for making wine, chiefly grown in the Piedmont region of Italy
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- dovecote — a structure, usually at a height above the ground, for housing domestic pigeons.
- duecento — the 13th century, with reference to Italy, especially to its art or literature.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eclogite — a rock consisting of a granular aggregate of green pyroxene and red garnet, often containing kyanite, silvery mica, quartz, and pyrite.
- ecostate — (of a leaf) having neither ribs nor nerves
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- ecotones — Plural form of ecotone.
- ecotoxic — harmful to animals, plants, or the environment
- ecotypes — Plural form of ecotype.
- ecotypic — Of or pertaining to an ecotype.
- ectoderm — the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
- ectogeny — the effect of pollination and fertilization on the tissues of a plant
- ectomere — any of the blastomeres that participate in the development of the ectoderm.
- ectosarc — the ectoplasm of a protozoan (opposed to endosarc).
- ectozoan — ectozoon.
- ectozoic — (of a parasitic animal) living on the surface of its host.
- ectozoon — any animal parasite, as the louse, that lives on the surface of its host (opposed to entozoon).
- ectropic — pertaining to ectropion
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- eduction — the act of educing.