8-letter words containing t, e, a
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- ecostate — (of a leaf) having neither ribs nor nerves
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- ecstatic — of, relating to, or characterized by ecstasy or a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion: an ecstatic frenzy; ecstatic cheering for the winning team.
- ectosarc — the ectoplasm of a protozoan (opposed to endosarc).
- ectozoan — ectozoon.
- edentate — belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
- editable — (of text or software) in a format that can be edited by the user.
- educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- educatee — a person who receives instruction; student.
- educates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of educate.
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- eggplant — a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
- egyptian — person from Egypt
- elastane — An elastic polyurethane material, used for hosiery, underwear, and other close-fitting clothing.
- elastase — An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- elastics — Plural form of elastic.
- elatedly — In an elated manner.
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- elaterin — An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- elevated — Situated or placed higher than the surrounding area.
- elevates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elevate.
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- elmameta — A Fortran extension, written at the Tallinn Poly Inst in 1978, used for lexical, syntactic and semantic sepecification in the ELMA compiler writer. This system was widely used in the Soviet Union, and produced an Ada to Diana compiler.
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- eluviate — to undergo eluviation
- emaciate — (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
- emanated — (of something abstract but perceptible) Issue or spread out from (a source).
- emanates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emanate.
- embattle — Set (an army) in battle array.
- emendate — (obsolete) emended, corrected, restored.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emirates — Plural form of emirate.
- empacket — to wrap up
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- emulated — Simple past tense and past participle of emulate.
- emulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emulate.
- emulator — A person or thing that emulates.
- en avant — forward; onward; ahead
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- enaction — The process of enacting something.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.