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8-letter words containing ens

  • licensor — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
  • lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
  • lysogens — Plural form of lysogen.
  • mens rea — a criminal intent.
  • menschen — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
  • menseful — gracious or proper
  • mensural — pertaining to measure.
  • menswear — men's wear.
  • missense — (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
  • mitogens — Plural form of mitogen.
  • moistens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisten.
  • monensin — a complex derivative of butyric acid, C 3 6 H 6 2 O 1 1 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces cinnamonensis and used as an antibiotic in animals.
  • muenster — a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
  • mutagens — Plural form of mutagen.
  • netizens — Plural form of netizen.
  • nondense — nowhere-dense.
  • nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
  • offenses — Plural form of offense.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • pensione — an Italian boarding house or small hotel
  • penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
  • prepense — planned or intended in advance; premeditated.
  • pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
  • propense — having a tendency toward; prone; inclined.
  • protense — extension in time
  • quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
  • quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
  • recensor — someone who produces a recension or recensions
  • senseful — full of reasonable sense; sound; judicious.
  • sensible — having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
  • sensibly — having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
  • sensoria — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
  • sensuous — perceived by or affecting the senses: the sensuous qualities of music.
  • smallens — Alexander, 1889–1972, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in Russia.
  • smolensk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the upper Dnieper, SW of Moscow: Russians defeated by Napoleon 1812.
  • sorensen — Soren Peter Lauritz [sœ-ruh n pey-tar lou-rits] /ˈsœ rən ˈpeɪ tær ˈlaʊ rɪts/ (Show IPA), 1868–1939, Danish chemist: developed pH scale.
  • steffens — (Joseph) Lincoln, 1866–1936, U.S. author, journalist, and editor.
  • stephens — Saint, died a.d. c35, first Christian martyr.
  • stiffens — to make stiff.
  • subsense — a definition that is a division of a wider definition
  • subtense — a line that subtends
  • suspense — a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
  • tense up — person: become anxious
  • tensible — capable of being stretched; tensile.
  • the fens — a flat low-lying area of E England, west and south of the Wash: consisted of marshes until reclaimed in the 17th to 19th centuries
  • woollens — Fabrics or clothing made from wool.
  • zymogens — Plural form of zymogen.
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