8-letter words containing te
- agminate — gathered or clustered together
- aguacate — an avocado
- aigrette — a long plume worn on hats or as a headdress, esp one of long egret feathers
- air date — the date of a broadcast or scheduled broadcast.
- airdates — Plural form of airdate.
- akaryote — a cell without a nucleus
- al dente — If you cook pasta or a vegetable until it is al dente, you cook it just long enough so that it is neither hard nor soft but is firm and slightly chewy.
- alaouite — a member of a Shiite sect of Syrian Muslims
- albacete — a city in SE Spain: metal goods manufacturing. Pop: 155 142 (2003 est)
- alegrete — a city in SW Brazil.
- aleviate — Misspelling of alleviate.
- alginate — a salt or ester of alginic acid
- alicante — a port in SE Spain: commercial centre. Pop: 305 911 (2003 est)
- alienate — If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
- alighted — Simple past tense and past participle of alight.
- aliquote — Misspelling of aliquot.
- alkylate — to bring (an alkyl group) into a compound
- allanite — a rare black or brown mineral consisting of the hydrated silicate of calcium, aluminium, iron, cerium, lanthanum, and other rare earth minerals. It occurs in granites and other igneous rocks. Formula: (Ca,Ce,La,Y)2(Al,Fe,Be,Mn,Mg)3(SiO4)3(OH)
- allegate — To make an allegation.
- alligate — to connect or join (a thing) to something else
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- allotted — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- allottee — a person to whom something is allotted
- allotter — a person who allots
- alouette — French. a lark.
- alphette — (rare) an alpha female; a confident, self-assured woman.
- altepetl — A Nahua community; a pueblo.
- alterant — that which alters the state of something
- alterers — Plural form of alterer.
- altering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
- alterity — the quality of being different
- alternat — the practice of deciding precedence by lot
- alveated — resembling the channels of a beehive
- alyattes — king of Lydia c617–560 b.c.
- amateurs — Plural form of amateur.
- amberite — a powder made of guncotton, barium nitrate, and paraffin, which does not produce any smoke when ignited
- ambiente — atmosphere; ambiance.
- ambrette — abelmosk.
- ambulate — to wander about or move from one place to another
- ameerate — a country ruled by an ameer; an emirate
- amidated — to convert into an amide.
- aminated — to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- ammeters — Plural form of ammeter.
- ammocete — ammocoete
- ammonate — ammoniate (def 2).
- ammonite — any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Ammonoidea, which were common in Mesozoic times and generally had a coiled partitioned shell. Their closest modern relative is the pearly nautilus
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.