8-letter words that end in e
- big game — Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big time — You can use big time to refer to the highest level of an activity or sport where you can achieve the greatest amount of success or importance. If you describe a person as big time, you mean they are successful and important.
- big tree — a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- billable — referring to time worked, esp by a lawyer, on behalf of a particular client and for which that client will be expected to pay
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bimbette — a woman who is considered sexually attractive but unintelligent
- bindable — capable of being tied by a rope
- binnacle — a housing for a ship's compass
- biocycle — the cycling of chemicals through the biosphere
- bioscope — a kind of early film projector
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
- birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
- birdseye — Clarence1886-1956; U.S. inventor of methods of quick-freezing foods
- bistable — having two stable states
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bitbrace — brace (def 3).
- biteable — denoting something which can be bitten
- biunique — relating to a one-to-one correspondence
- blackice — (software, security) A commercial firewall and intrusion detection system.
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- blamable — that deserves blame; culpable
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.
- bleuatre — blueish
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blondine — (of a woman) to dye (one's hair) blonde
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- blowhole — the nostril, paired or single, of whales, situated far back on the skull
- blowpipe — a long tube from which pellets, poisoned darts, etc, are shot by blowing
- blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
- blue ice — the oldest and densest ice in a glacier, distinguished by a pale-blue color.
- blueline — a blue-toned photographic print used as a proof for platemaking
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- boatable — able to be carried by boat
- boatlike — resembling a boat
- bob wire — barbed wire.
- bobwhite — a brown North American quail, Colinus virginianus, the male of which has white markings on the head: a popular game bird
- bodensee — Constance2 (sense 2)
- boehmite — a grey, red, or brown mineral that consists of alumina in rhombic crystalline form and occurs in bauxite. Formula: AlO(OH)
- boertjie — a person, esp a friend, often used as a term of address
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- boilable — suitable or recommended for boiling: a diet of vegetables, rice, and other boilable foods.