8-letter words that end in e
- apologue — an allegory or moral fable
- apophyge — the outward curve at each end of the shaft of a column, adjoining the base or capital
- apophyse — Apophysis.
- apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- apothece — a shop or storehouse
- appanage — land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son
- apparate — (obsolete) apparatus.
- appellee — a person who is accused or appealed against
- appenage — Alternative form of appanage.
- appetise — (rare) To whet the appetite.
- appetite — Your appetite is your desire to eat.
- appetize — to stimulate the appetite
- applause — Applause is the noise made by a group of people clapping their hands to show approval.
- applique — Applique is the craft of sewing fabric shapes onto larger pieces of cloth. You can also use applique to refer to things you make using this craft.
- apposite — Something that is apposite is suitable for or appropriate to what is happening or being discussed.
- appraise — If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- apricate — to sunbathe or bask in the sun
- aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- aquacade — an aquatic exhibition or entertainment consisting of swimming, diving, etc., often to music
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquatone — a keep-fit regime in which exercises, both aerobic and strength building, are performed in a swimming pool
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- aquiline — If someone has an aquiline nose or profile, their nose is large, thin, and usually curved.
- araldite — a strong epoxy resin best known as a glue
- araneose — arachnoid, especially as a plant.
- arapahoe — Arapaho.
- arborise — To cause to have a tree like appearance.
- arborite — a brand of laminated plastic sheets containing melamine, used esp for heat-resistant surfaces that can be easily cleaned
- arborize — to give, or take on, a treelike branched appearance
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcature — a small-scale arcade
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archaize — to give an archaic appearance or character to, as by the use of archaisms
- archduke — a chief duke, esp (since 1453) a prince of the Austrian imperial dynasty
- archlute — a long, large bass lute
- archmage — A very powerful mage.
- archwise — like an arch
- areolate — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- argemone — any of various plants of the genus Argemone of the family Papaveraceae, which are native to the Americas, have large white or yellow flowers and are covered in prickles
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arginine — an essential amino acid of plant and animal proteins, necessary for nutrition and for the production of excretory urea
- arguable — If you say that it is arguable that something is true, you believe that it can be supported by evidence and that many people would agree with it.
- arillate — having an aril.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- aristate — Botany. having aristae; awned.
- aristide — Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- armalite — a lightweight high-velocity rifle of various calibres, capable of automatic and semiautomatic operation
- armature — a revolving structure in an electric motor or generator, wound with the coils that carry the current