8-letter words containing en
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bodensee — Constance2 (sense 2)
- bondsmen — a person who by bond becomes surety for another.
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- bowenite — a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- bren gun — an air-cooled gas-operated light machine gun taking .303 calibre ammunition: used by British and Commonwealth forces in World War II
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- brethren — You can refer to the members of a particular organization or group, especially a religious group, as brethren.
- bridgend — a county borough in S Wales, created in 1996 from S Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Bridgend. Pop: 129 900 (2003 est). Area: 264 sq km (102 sq miles)
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- burdener — a person who burdens
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- butt end — butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- butylene — any of four alkenes, including isobutylene, having the same formula, C4H8, but differing in properties and structure
- cadenced — having or marked by a rhythmical cadence: the cadenced steps of marching troops.
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- calendal — relating to the calends
- calendar — A calendar is a chart or device which displays the date and the day of the week, and often the whole of a particular year divided up into months, weeks, and days.
- calender — a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- camphene — a colourless crystalline insoluble optically active terpene derived from pinene and present in many essential oils. Formula: C10H16
- canteens — Plural form of canteen.
- carageen — carrageen
- carbenes — Plural form of carbene.
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- cardenas — Lázaro (ˈlaθaro). 1895–1970, Mexican statesman and general; president of Mexico (1934–40)
- careened — Simple past tense and past participle of careen.
- carotene — any of four orange-red isomers of an unsaturated hydrocarbon present in many plants (β-carotene is the orange pigment of carrots) and converted to vitamin A in the liver. Formula: C40H56
- casement — A casement or a casement window is a window that opens by means of hinges, usually at the side.
- catenane — a type of chemical compound in which the molecules have two or more rings that are interlocked like the links of a chain
- catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- catenate — to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cathleen — a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.
- cayenned — sprinkled or seasoned with cayenne
- cemented — any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- cementer — A person who applies cement.
- cementum — a thin bonelike tissue that covers the dentine in the root of a tooth
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cenozoic — of, denoting, or relating to the most recent geological era, which began 65 000 000 years ago: characterized by the development and increase of the mammals