8-letter words containing s, e
- absolute — Absolute means total and complete.
- absolved — Simple past tense and past participle of absolve.
- absolver — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- absolves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve.
- absorbed — If you are absorbed in something or someone, you are very interested in them and they take up all your attention and energy.
- absorber — a person or thing that absorbs
- absterge — to wipe clean or cleanse
- abstrude — (transitive) To thrust away.
- abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- absurder — Comparative form of absurd.
- abusable — able to be abused
- abuseful — (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
- abutters — Plural form of abutter.
- academes — the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
- academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
- acarbose — a type of diabetes medicine taken orally to slow and reduce the supply of glucose to the blood.
- accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accesses — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accessor — Someone or something that accesses.
- accosted — (of animals) represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted.
- accresce — (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
- accretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete.
- accursed — Some people use accursed to describe something which they are very annoyed about.
- accuseds — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- accusers — Plural form of accuser.
- accusive — Accusative.
- acescent — slightly sour or turning sour
- acetates — Plural form of acetate.
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achenese — Atjehnese.
- achieves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve.
- achilles — Greek hero, the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis: in the Iliad the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy. While he was a baby his mother plunged him into the river Styx making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. After slaying Hector, he was killed by Paris who wounded him in the heel
- achinese — Atjehnese.
- achiness — a constant, dull pain
- acidness — Acidity, sourness.
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- acolytes — Plural form of acolyte.
- aconites — Plural form of aconite.
- acquires — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- acreages — Plural form of acreage.
- acrosome — a cap-like structure on the tip of a spermatozoon that releases enzymes on encountering the ovum allowing fusion with the ovum in the sexual reproductive process; this part of the process is known as the acrosome reaction
- actives' — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- activise — to make active; activate.
- actoress — Alternative form of actress.
- actressy — exaggerated and affected in manner; theatrical
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- adamsite — a yellow poisonous crystalline solid that readily sublimes; diphenylaminechlorarsine. It is used in chemical warfare as a vomiting agent. Formula: C6H4AsClNHC6H4; relative density: 1.65; melting pt: 195°C; boiling pt: 410°C
- adapters — Plural form of adapter.
- addendas — a plural of addendum.