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8-letter words containing e

  • -shirted — -shirted is used to form adjectives which indicate what colour or type of shirt someone is wearing.
  • -skinned — -skinned is used after adjectives such as 'dark' and 'clear' to form adjectives that indicate what kind of skin someone has.
  • -sleeved — -sleeved is added to adjectives such as 'long' and 'short' to form adjectives which indicate that an item of clothing has long or short sleeves.
  • -spermal — -spermous
  • -stained — stained, covered, or marked with the substance specified
  • -stemmed — -stemmed is added to adjectives to form adjectives which indicate what the stem of something is like.
  • -storied — -storied means the same as -story.
  • -thighed — having thighs of a specified kind
  • -tongued — having a (specified kind of) tongue
  • -trained — having been trained by a specified person or organization
  • -tressed — having a tress or tresses as specified
  • -trimmed — trimmed or decorated as specified
  • -visaged — having a visage as specified
  • -watcher — -watcher combines with nouns to form other nouns that refer to people who are interested in a group of animals or people, and who study them closely.
  • 100baset — (networking)   Any of several Fast Ethernet 100 MBps CSMA/CD standards for twisted pair cables, including: 100BaseTx (100 Mbps over two-pair Cat5 or better cable), 100BaseT4 (100 Mbps over four-pair Cat3 or better cable), 100BaseT2 (in committee; 100 Mbps over two-pair Cat3 or better cable). All are standards (or planned standards) under IEEE 802.3.
  • 56k line — (communications)   A digital connection (possibly a leased line, possibly switched) capable of carrying 56 kbps. Compare DS0.
  • a cheval — (of a bet, esp in roulette) made on two adjacent numbers, cards, etc
  • a droite — to the right.
  • a gauche — on or to the left-hand side.
  • a little — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • a shares — those ordinary shares in a company which carry restricted voting rights or other restrictions
  • a stroke — a small amount of work
  • a trifle — You can use a trifle to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order to make something you say seem less extreme.
  • a-plenty — in sufficient quantity; in generous amounts (usually used following the noun it modifies): He had troubles aplenty.
  • a-sample — the primary urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports; if the A-sample tests positive, the B-sample is tested to confirm or invalidate the results
  • a-v node — atrioventricular node.
  • a/b test — Digital Technology. a comparison of two or more versions of a web page or app in simultaneous use to assess which is the optimized version for achieving a specified design goal or performance metric.
  • a2 level — the second part of an A-level course, taken after the AS level examination
  • aalesund — a seaport in W Norway.
  • aaronite — one of the priestly descendants of Aaron.
  • aasvogel — a South African vulture
  • ab extra — from the outside.
  • abacuses — Plural form of abacus.
  • abalones — a large mollusk of the genus Haliotis, having a bowllike shell bearing a row of respiratory holes, the flesh of which is used for food and the shell for ornament and as a source of mother-of-pearl.
  • abampere — the cgs unit of current in the electromagnetic system; the constant current that, when flowing through two parallel straight infinitely long conductors 1 centimetre apart, will produce a force between them of 2 dynes per centimetre: equivalent to 10 amperes
  • abasedly — in an abased manner
  • abatable — able to be abated
  • abattage — the slaughter of animals, especially the slaughter of diseased animals to prevent the infection of others.
  • abatures — Plural form of abature.
  • abbacies — Plural form of abbacy.
  • abbesses — Plural form of abbess.
  • abdicate — If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen.
  • abdomens — Plural form of abdomen.
  • abducens — abducens nerve.
  • abducent — (of a muscle) abducting
  • abducted — Simple past tense and past participle of abduct.
  • abductee — someone who is abducted
  • abednego — one of Daniel's three companions who, together with Shadrach and Meshach, was miraculously saved from destruction in Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace (Daniel 3:12–30)
  • abegging — in the act of begging
  • abelmosk — a tropical bushy malvaceous plant, Hibiscus abelmoschus, cultivated for its yellow-and-crimson flowers and for its musk-scented seeds, which yield an oil used in perfumery
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