8-letter words containing t, e, a
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotest — a motor race in which standard cars are driven around a racing circuit
- autotune — a software package that automatically manipulates a recording of a vocal track until it is in tune regardless of whether or not the original performance was in tune
- autotype — a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
- autozero — Autozeroing.
- autunite — a yellowish fluorescent radioactive mineral consisting of a hydrated calcium uranium phosphate in tetragonal crystalline form. It is found in uranium ores. Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2.10–12H2O
- auxocyte — any cell undergoing meiosis, esp an oocyte or spermatocyte
- availeth — Archaic third-person singular form of avail.
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- averment — the act of averring.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aweather — towards the weather
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- axletree — a bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolve
- azotemia — the accumulation of nitrogenous substances in the blood, resulting from failure of the kidneys to remove them
- azotemic — the accumulation of abnormally large amounts of nitrogenous waste products in the blood, as in uremic poisoning.
- azotized — Simple past tense and past participle of azotize.
- baby tee — a form-fitting, short T-shirt worn by girls or women.
- backbeat — the second and fourth beats of a bar written in even time or, in more complex time signatures, the last beat of the bar
- backbite — to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- backlite — (in automotive styling) the rear window of a vehicle.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- bacteria — Bacteria are very small organisms. Some bacteria can cause disease.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bad debt — A bad debt is a sum of money that has been lent but is not likely to be repaid.
- bad time — inopportune moment
- baguette — A baguette is a type of long, thin, white bread which is traditionally made in France.
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bakelite — Bakelite is a type of hard plastic that was used in the past for making things such as telephones and radios.
- bakemeat — a pie
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- balestra — a jump toward the opponent followed immediately by a lunge.
- balletic — If you describe someone's movements as balletic, you mean that they have some of the graceful qualities of ballet.
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- balloted — a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
- ballotee — a person who has been balloted or conscripted, esp into military service or into the mines
- balloter — a person who votes by ballot
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping