8-letter words containing t, e, a
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- cellaret — a case, cabinet, or sideboard with compartments for holding wine bottles
- cellmate — In a prison, someone's cellmate is the person they share their cell with.
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cervelat — a smoked sausage made from pork and beef
- cessavit — (UK, legal, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
- cetacean — Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
- cetaceum — spermaceti.
- ceterach — any of a genus of ferns characterized by scales found on the underside of the fronds
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chamotte — grog (def 3).
- changeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'change'.
- changteh — Changde
- chantage — the use of threats to extort money; blackmail
- chanters — Plural form of chanter.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chanteys — Plural form of chantey.
- chapelet — A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
- chapiter — the capital of a column
- chaplets — Plural form of chaplet.
- chapters — Plural form of chapter.
- chaptrel — a side pillar supporting the weight of an arch
- chaqueta — a heavy jacket associated with South American cowboys
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chargeth — Archaic third-person singular form of charge.
- chariest — Superlative form of chary.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- charters — Plural form of charter.
- chartlet — a small chart indicating some special thing, as information relative to a radio navigational aid.
- chartres — a city in NW France: Gothic cathedral; market town. Pop: 41 588 (2006)
- chastely — refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion; virtuous.
- chastens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chasten.
- chastest — Superlative form of chaste.
- chastise — If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.