8-letter words containing t, n, o, e
- countest — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- counties — Plural form of county.
- countrey — Archaic spelling of country.
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- coventry — a city in central England, in Coventry unitary authority, West Midlands: devastated in World War II; modern cathedral (1954–62); industrial centre, esp for motor vehicles; two universities (1965, 1992). Pop: 303 475 (2001)
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- cretonne — a heavy cotton or linen fabric with a printed design, used for furnishing
- cribnote — crib (def 5a).
- cronkite — Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- cytogeny — (biology) cell production or development; cytogenesis.
- cytokine — any of various proteins, secreted by cells, that carry signals to neighbouring cells. Cytokines include interferon
- cytosine — a white crystalline pyrimidine occurring in nucleic acids; 6-amino-2-hydroxy pyrimidine. Formula: C4H5N3O
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- debation — Debating.
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
- denotate — to denote (something)
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- deponent — (of a verb, esp in Latin) having the inflectional endings of a passive verb but the meaning of an active verb
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- desknote — a computer that is similar in size to a notebook computer, but is designed to remain stationary, like a desktop computer
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- diketone — a compound containing two C=O groups, as CH 3 COCOCH 3 .