8-letter words that end in te
- eclogite — a rock consisting of a granular aggregate of green pyroxene and red garnet, often containing kyanite, silvery mica, quartz, and pyrite.
- ecostate — (of a leaf) having neither ribs nor nerves
- edentate — belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
- eggcrate — of or resembling a horizontal construction divided by vertical partitions into cell-like areas, used especially for directing downward rays of overhead light: eggcrate ceiling fixtures.
- el monte — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 116,000
- elongate — Make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width.
- eluviate — to undergo eluviation
- emaciate — (transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
- emendate — (obsolete) emended, corrected, restored.
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- en route — on the way
- en suite — bathroom: adjoining room
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- enceinte — An enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place.
- end date — day when sth finishes or closes
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- enervate — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- enherite — Archaic form of inherit.
- enterate — having an intestine separate from the outer wall of the body
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epiphyte — A plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rain forests.
- epitrite — a metrical foot with three long syllables and one short one
- epizoite — an organism that lives on an animal but is not parasitic on it
- epsomite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate, also found in fumaroles, with the chemical formula MgSO4'·'7H2O.
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- erionite — a common form of zeolite
- eructate — To burp; to belch.
- escalate — Increase rapidly.
- essonite — a dark-brown kind of garnet
- estimate — Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- estivate — (of an animal, particularly an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
- ethylate — (organic chemistry) To react with an ethyl compound so as to introduce one or more ethyl groups into a compound.
- etiolate — To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
- euronote — a form of euro-commercial paper consisting of short-term negotiable bearer notes
- eutaxite — a type of banded volcanic rock
- euxenite — a rare brownish-black mineral containing erbium, cerium, uranium, columbium, and yttrium
- evacuate — Remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place.
- evaluate — Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- ex parte — (of an application in a judicial proceeding) on behalf of one side or party only
- excavate — Make (a hole or channel) by digging.
- excitate — (obsolete) To excite.
- excreate — (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
- execrate — Feel or express great loathing for.
- exhumate — (obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
- expedite — (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
- expidite — Misspelling of expedite.
- extubate — (surgery) To remove a tube from a hollow organ or from an airway.
- exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.