8-letter words containing e
- ailerons — Plural form of aileron.
- ailments — Plural form of ailment.
- air base — An air base is a centre where military aircraft take off or land and are serviced, and where many of the centre's staff live.
- air bell — Glassmaking. an air bubble formed in glass during blowing and often retained as a decorative element.
- air cell — Anatomy, Zoology, Botany. a cavity or receptacle containing air.
- air date — the date of a broadcast or scheduled broadcast.
- air hole — a hole that allows the passage of air, esp for ventilation
- air lane — a route for travel by air; airway
- air mile — nautical mile
- air rage — Air rage is aggressive or violent behaviour by airline passengers.
- air time — The airtime that something gets is the amount of time taken up with broadcasts about it.
- air vent — a small opening through which air can escape from an enclosed space
- air well — an open shaft passing through the floors of a building for ventilation
- air-core — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
- air-line — straight; direct; traveling a direct route: Some railroads advertise air-line routes between stations.
- airborne — If an aircraft is airborne, it is in the air and flying.
- airbrake — A brake (slowing device) that is operated pneumatically (by air pressure).
- aircheck — a recording made from a radio or television broadcast, often used for demonstration or quality control purposes
- aircrews — Plural form of aircrew.
- airdates — Plural form of airdate.
- airdried — Simple past tense and past participle of airdry.
- airdries — a city in central Scotland, near Glasgow.
- airdrome — An airdrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- airedale — a large rough-haired tan-coloured breed of terrier characterized by a black saddle-shaped patch covering most of the back
- airfares — Plural form of airfare.
- airfield — An airfield is an area of ground where aircraft take off and land. It is smaller than an airport.
- airforce — Alternative spelling of air force.
- airframe — the body of an aircraft, excluding its engines
- airheads — Plural form of airhead.
- airiness — the quality or condition of being fresh, light, or breezy
- airliner — An airliner is a large aeroplane that is used for carrying passengers.
- airlines — Plural form of airline.
- airplane — An airplane is a vehicle with wings and one or more engines that enable it to fly through the air.
- airpower — the strength of a nation's air force
- airscape — a view of the land or sea below from the air
- airscrew — an aircraft propeller
- airspace — A country's airspace is the part of the sky that is over that country and is considered to belong to it.
- airspeed — An aircraft's airspeed is the speed at which it travels through the air.
- airwaves — The airwaves is used to refer to the activity of broadcasting on radio and television. For example, if someone says something over the airwaves, they say it on the radio or television.
- akaryote — a cell without a nucleus
- akeldama — Aceldama.
- akinesia — the loss of the ability to move, caused by diseases of the central nervous system
- akinesis — absence, loss, or impairment of the power of voluntary movement.
- akinetic — without motion, unmoving
- akkerman — former name of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
- akureyri — a city in N Iceland.
- al dente — If you cook pasta or a vegetable until it is al dente, you cook it just long enough so that it is neither hard nor soft but is firm and slightly chewy.
- al desko — (of a meal, esp lunch) at one's desk at one's place of work
- al fayed — Mohamed. born 1933, Egyptian-born businessman; owner of the Harrods department store (1985–2010) and of the Ritz Hotel, Paris, from 1979: his son Dodi Fayed (1956–97) died in the same Paris car crash as Diana, Princess of Wales
- al qaeda — a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.