8-letter words containing e, n, c, o, u
- councell — Obsolete spelling of council.
- counsell — Obsolete spelling of counsel.
- counsels — Plural form of counsel.
- counter- — Counter- is used to form words which refer to actions or activities that are intended to prevent other actions or activities or that respond to them.
- counters — Plural form of counter.
- countess — A countess is a woman who has the same rank as a count or earl, or who is married to a count or earl.
- countest — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- counties — Plural form of county.
- countrey — Archaic spelling of country.
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cunjevoi — an aroid plant, Alocasia macrorrhiza, of tropical Asia and Australia, cultivated for its edible rhizome
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- decurion — a local councillor
- denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- 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.
- duecento — the 13th century, with reference to Italy, especially to its art or literature.
- duncedom — the characteristic behaviour or the realm of a dunce or a dullard
- eduction — the act of educing.
- encolour — to give a colour to
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- encomium — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
- enounced — Simple past tense and past participle of enounce.
- eulachon — A small edible fish of North America, Thaleichthys pacificus; the candlefish.
- euphonic — Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
- excusion — Misspelling of excursion.
- flounced — Simple past tense and past participle of flounce.
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- glucogen — Alternative form of glycogen.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- inconnue — an unknown woman
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- luncheon — lunch, especially a formal lunch held in connection with a meeting or other special occasion: the alumni luncheon.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- monocule — (zoology) A small crustacean with one median eye.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.