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.
- fletcher — John, 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.