8-letter words containing ce
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
- cenozoic — of, denoting, or relating to the most recent geological era, which began 65 000 000 years ago: characterized by the development and increase of the mammals
- censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censure.
- censused — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- censuses — Plural form of census.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centeral — Misspelling of central.
- centered — If an industry or event is centered in a place, it takes place to the greatest extent there.
- centeric — Misspelling of centric.
- centesis — the surgical puncturing of a part of the body with a hollow needle in order to extract fluid
- centiare — a unit of area equal to one square metre
- centibar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to 1/100 (0.01) bar or 10,000 dynes per square centimeter.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centinel — Obsolete spelling of sentinel.
- centiped — Archaic form of centipede.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centrale — (anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
- centries — Plural form of centry.
- centring — a temporary structure, esp one made of timber, used to support an arch during construction
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalad — towards the head or anterior part
- cephalic — of or relating to the head
- cephalin — a phospholipid, similar to lecithin, that occurs in the nerve tissue and brain
- cephalo- — indicating the head
- cephalon — the head, especially of an arthropod.
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cerastes — any venomous snake of the genus Cerastes, esp the horned viper
- ceratite — An ammonoid fossil of an intermediate type found chiefly in the Permian and Triassic periods, typically with partly frilled and partly lobed suture lines.
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- cercaria — one of the larval forms of trematode worms. It has a short forked tail and resembles an immature adult
- cerclage — the treatment of an incompetent cervix by means of a suture in early pregnancy to prevent miscarriage