8-letter words containing o, t, e
- apothegm — a short, pithy saying (Ex.: “Brevity is the soul of wit”)
- appleton — Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947
- apporter — (obsolete) A bringer in; an importer.
- apposite — Something that is apposite is suitable for or appropriate to what is happening or being discussed.
- apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
- aquatone — a keep-fit regime in which exercises, both aerobic and strength building, are performed in a swimming pool
- arborite — a brand of laminated plastic sheets containing melamine, used esp for heat-resistant surfaces that can be easily cleaned
- archetto — a tool, consisting of a bow strung with wire, for trimming excess material from a piece being modeled.
- areolate — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arrestor — Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- arterio- — artery or arteries
- arthouse — a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream
- artotype — collotype.
- asbestos — Asbestos is a grey material which does not burn and which has been used as a protection against fire or heat.
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assiento — a slave trade treaty between other countries and Spain which allowed other countries to supply slaves to Spanish dependencies or colonies
- assonate — to display assonance or match in sound
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assorter — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- atenolol — a type of beta-blocker that is taken by mouth and is used to treat angina and high blood pressure
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- atheroma — a fatty deposit on or within the inner lining of an artery, often causing an obstruction to the blood flow
- atherton — Mike, full name Michael Andrew Atherton. born 1968, English cricketer: played for Lancashire (1987–2001) and England (1989–2001); captain of England (1993–1998)
- athetoid — (symptom) characterised by athetosis.
- athonite — of or relating to Mount Athos.
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- atomises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomise.
- atomized — Simple past tense and past participle of atomize.
- atomizer — a device for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, such as the nozzle used to feed oil into a furnace or an enclosed bottle with a fine outlet used to spray perfumes or medicines
- atomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomize.
- atonable — Capable of being atoned for.
- atropine — a poisonous alkaloid obtained from deadly nightshade, having an inhibitory action on the autonomic nervous system. It is used medicinally in pre-anaesthetic medication, to speed a slow heart rate, and as an emergency first-aid counter to exposure to chemical warfare nerve agents. Formula: C17H23NO3
- attercop — a spider
- attestor — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.