8-letter words containing te
- acrylate — a chemical compound used in plastics and resins
- activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- actuated — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- aculeate — cutting; pointed
- acylated — to introduce the acyl group into (a compound).
- ad litem — (formerly, esp of a guardian) appointed for a lawsuit
- adamsite — a yellow poisonous crystalline solid that readily sublimes; diphenylaminechlorarsine. It is used in chemical warfare as a vomiting agent. Formula: C6H4AsClNHC6H4; relative density: 1.65; melting pt: 195°C; boiling pt: 410°C
- adapters — Plural form of adapter.
- addebted — indebted
- addicted — Someone who is addicted to a harmful drug cannot stop taking it.
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adequate — If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
- adfected — (algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
- adjugate — adjoint (def 1).
- adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships
- adjuster — An adjuster is a device which allows you to alter a piece of equipment's position or setting.
- admitted — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- admittee — a person who has been (or will be) admitted
- admitter — a person who admits or something which admits
- adoptees — Plural form of adoptee.
- adopters — Plural form of adopter.
- adrastea — a small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1979
- adulated — Simple past tense and past participle of adulate.
- adultery — If a married person commits adultery, they have sex with someone that they are not married to.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- adverted — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- aegirite — a mineral of the pyroxene group, NaFeSi2O6, commonly found in alkaline igneous rocks
- aerolite — a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
- aesthete — An aesthete is someone who loves and appreciates works of art and beautiful things.
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- affecter — a person who makes a real or pretence show of liking, being, or knowing something
- afflated — resulting from influence of someone or something
- affronté — facing
- aflutter — in or into a nervous or excited state
- afterall — Misspelling of after all.
- aftereye — to look at or watch someone or something that has passed by
- aftersun — a moisturizing lotion applied to the skin to soothe sunburn and avoid peeling
- aftertax — remaining after applicable taxes have been deducted: a sharp decrease in her aftertax income.
- afterwar — Following a war.
- agaçante — irritating
- age-mate — a person or animal of the same age, or nearly the same age, as another
- agemates — Plural form of agemate.
- aggerate — (transitive) To heap up.
- agitated — If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- agitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agitate.
- aglisten — refulgent; glistening.
- aglitter — sparkling; glittering