8-letter words containing n, t, e, r
- 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.
- crenated — Crenate.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- 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
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- crunkest — a type of hip-hop originating in the southern U.S. and characterized by heavy bass and call-and-response vocals.
- currents — Plural form of current.
- curtness — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- daintier — Comparative form of dainty.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenter — to cause to undergo a shift away from what has been its traditional center, focus, orientation, or emphasis
- decentre — to take away a temporary support from
- deferent — (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- denature — to change the nature of
- dendrite — any of the short branched threadlike extensions of a nerve cell, which conduct impulses towards the cell body
- dentaria — a genus of plant within the family Brassicaceae, in some systems of classification considered identical with the genus Cardimime
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- dentures — Dentures are artificial teeth worn by people who no longer have all their own teeth.
- depurant — purifying
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- determin — Obsolete form of determine.
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- deturned — Simple past tense and past participle of deturn.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- deventer — an industrial city in the E Netherlands, in Overijssel province, on the River IJssel: medieval intellectual centre; early centre of Dutch printing. Pop: 88 000 (2003 est)
- dextrine — a soluble, gummy substance, formed from starch by the action of heat, acids, or ferments, occurring in various forms and having dextrorotatory properties: used chiefly as a thickening agent in printing inks and food, as a mucilage, and as a substitute for gum arabic and other natural substances.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dirigent — directing
- diriment — causing to become wholly void; nullifying.
- disenter — Obsolete form of disinter.
- disinter — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dniester — a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.