8-letter words that end in nt
- pup tent — shelter tent.
- pursuant — proceeding after; following (usually followed by to): Pursuant to his studies he took a job in an office.
- purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- questant — a person who quests
- quintant — a sextant having an arc equal to one fifth of a circle.
- quitrent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quotient — the result of division; the number of times one quantity is contained in another.
- radicant — rooting from the stem, as ivy.
- re-count — to count again.
- reaccent — to accent again
- reactant — a person or thing that reacts.
- reascent — a further ascent
- recement — any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- recreant — cowardly or craven.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- red cent — a cent, as representative of triviality: His promise isn't worth a red cent.
- redolent — having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
- referent — the object or event to which a term or symbol refers.
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- reinvent — to invent again or anew, especially without knowing that the invention already exists.
- relaxant — of, relating to, or causing a relaxation.
- relevant — bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant remark.
- relucent — shining; bright.
- remanent — remaining; left behind.
- renitent — resisting pressure; resistant.
- reorient — Rare. rising anew.
- resident — a person who resides in a place.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- reticent — disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
- retirant — retiree.
- revehent — carrying back
- revenant — a person who returns.
- reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
- roborant — strengthening.
- rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- saturant — something that causes saturation.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- segreant — (of a griffin) rampant.