8-letter words containing en
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- aventail — the movable front flap on a helmet
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- averment — the act of averring.
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- awakened — Rouse from sleep; cause to stop sleeping.
- awakener — a person or thing that awakens
- back end — autumn
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.
- balbuena — Bernardo de [ber-nahr-doh duh;; Spanish ber-nahr-th aw th e] /bərˈnɑr doʊ də;; Spanish bɛrˈnɑr ðɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1568–1627, Mexican poet and priest, born in Spain.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bandsmen — Plural form of bandsman.
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barrenly — Unfruitfully; unproductively.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basename — (file system) The name of a file which, in contrast to a pathname, does not mention any of the directories containing the file. Examples:
- baseness — morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- batement — reduction; abatement
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- battener — someone who flourishes, grows fat, is strengthened
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- bedeafen — to deafen
- bedizens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedizen.
- bedrench — to drench thoroughly; soak
- befallen — to happen or occur.
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- begotten — Begotten is the past participle of beget.
- behappen — to befall
- beholden — If you are beholden to someone, you are in debt to them in some way or you feel that you have a duty to them because they have helped you.
- bemadden — to cause to become mad
- benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
- benbrook — a town in N Texas.
- benching — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- benchley — Robert (Charles)1889-1945; U.S. humorist
- benchman — a person whose job requires sitting at a workbench: The TV repair shop employs five benchmen.
- benchtop — a flat surface area