8-letter words containing e, n, c
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- credence — If something lends or gives credence to a theory or story, it makes it easier to believe.
- credenda — doctrines to be believed; matters of faith
- credenza — a type of buffet or sideboard
- creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
- cremains — A dead person's cremains are their remains after their body has been cremated.
- cremorne — a crumhorn
- crenated — Crenate.
- crenelle — Alternative spelling of crenel.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- crepance — an injury to the hind leg of a horse caused by its being struck by the shoe of the other hind foot
- crescent — A crescent is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like the shape of the moon during its first and last quarters. It is the most important symbol of the Islamic faith.
- cressent — Charles. 1685–1768, French cabinetmaker, noted esp for his marquetry using coloured woods
- cresting — an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- cretonne — a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing
- crewneck — A crewneck or a crewneck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- cringles — Plural form of cringle.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- crispens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crispen.
- cromorne — crumhorn.
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- crumenal — a purse
- crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
- cruncher — the critical or decisive thing
- crunches — Plural form of crunch.
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- cryogens — Plural form of cryogen.
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- ctenizid — a spider of the family Ctenizidae, comprising the trap-door spiders.
- cube van — a van with a cube-shaped storage compartment that is wider and taller than the front of the vehicle
- cucquean — (obsolete) A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
- cuisines — Plural form of cuisine.
- 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
- cultigen — a species of plant that is known only as a cultivated form and did not originate from a wild type
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- cumacean — any small malacostracan marine crustacean of the Cumacea family, mostly dwelling on the sea bed but sometimes found among the plankton
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cuneatic — cuneiform; cuneate.