8-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- creatine — an important metabolite involved in many biochemical reactions and present in many types of living cells
- creating — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- crenated — Crenate.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- cumstain — Lb vulgar A stain from ejaculate.
- cumulant — (mathematics) Any of a set of parameters of a one-dimensional probability distribution of a certain form.
- cuneatic — cuneiform; cuneate.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- currants — Plural form of currant.
- curranty — full of currants
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
- cyanates — Plural form of cyanate.
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cymation — cymatium.
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- dancette — an ornamental zigzag, as in a molding.
- dancetty — having a zigzag pattern
- decadent — If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.
- decanted — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- descants — Plural form of descant.
- diactine — a sponge spicule having two rays that develop in different directions from a single point of origin
- dianetic — Of or pertaining to dianetics.
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dictynna — an ancient Cretan goddess of the sea.
- discants — Plural form of discant.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- dutchman — a native or inhabitant of the Netherlands.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- ecbatana — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- ectozoan — ectozoon.
- enacting — Present participle of enact.
- enaction — The process of enacting something.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.