8-letter words containing e, n, c, u
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- glucogen — Alternative form of glycogen.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gun deck — (formerly, on a warship) any deck, other than the weather deck, having cannons from end to end.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- haunched — the hip.
- haunches — the hip.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- included — being part of the whole; contained; covered: Breakfast is included in the price of the room.
- includes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of include.
- inconnue — an unknown woman
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- incumber — encumber.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- induciae — the time limit given for a defendant to appear in court after first receiving a citation to appear
- inducted — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- inductee — a person inducted into military service.
- infecund — not fecund; unfruitful; barren.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- insucken — relating to, or situated within, a sucken
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- knuckled — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckles — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- lacunule — a small lacuna.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- leucaena — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, which includes the lead tree.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line cut — an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lucianne — a female given name.
- luculent — clear or lucid: a luculent explanation.