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8-letter words containing t, c, e, l

  • ecliptic — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
  • eclogite — a rock consisting of a granular aggregate of green pyroxene and red garnet, often containing kyanite, silvery mica, quartz, and pyrite.
  • ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
  • elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
  • elastics — Plural form of elastic.
  • eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
  • electing — Present participle of elect.
  • election — A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
  • elective — Related to or working by means of election.
  • electors — Plural form of elector.
  • electret — A permanently polarized piece of dielectric material, analogous to a permanent magnet.
  • electric — Of, worked by, charged with, or producing electricity.
  • electro- — Electro- is used to form words that refer to electricity or processes involving electricity.
  • electron — A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
  • electros — Plural form of electro.
  • electrum — A natural or artificial alloy of gold with at least 20 percent silver, used for jewelry, especially in ancient times.
  • elenctic — Serving to refute; refutative.
  • elicited — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
  • elicitor — A person or thing that elicits.
  • elliptic — Of, relating to, or having the form of an ellipse.
  • enclitic — A word pronounced with so little emphasis that it is shortened and forms part of the preceding word, e.g., n’t in can’t.
  • enclothe — To cover with clothing.
  • eolithic — denoting, relating to, or characteristic of the early part of the Stone Age, characterized by the use of crude stone tools
  • epicotyl — The region of an embryo or seedling stem above the cotyledon.
  • epulotic — a substance that promotes the formation of scar tissue
  • erectile — Able to become erect.
  • erotical — (obsolete) Erotic.
  • escalate — Increase rapidly.
  • eschalot — Archaic form of shallot.
  • esculent — Fit to be eaten; edible.
  • eteocles — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. He expelled his brother Polynices from Thebes; they killed each other in single combat when Polynices returned as leader of the Seven against Thebes
  • ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
  • eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
  • eustelic — Of or possessing a eustele.
  • explicit — Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.
  • facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
  • falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
  • fat cell — a cell in loose connective tissue that is specialized for the synthesis and storage of fat.
  • fecolith — A calcified fecal deposit.
  • feculent — full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
  • felicita — a female given name, form of Felicia.
  • felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
  • fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
  • ficklest — likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
  • flection — the act of bending.
  • fletched — Simple past tense and past participle of fletch.
  • fletcherJohn, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
  • flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
  • flitches — Plural form of flitch.
  • fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
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