8-letter words that end in ct
- nonelect — a person or group of people that is not chosen or elected, esp for salvation
- obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- octeract — (mathematics) A eight-dimensional hypercube.
- play-act — to engage in make-believe.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- procinct — the state of preparedness
- prospect — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- re-eject — to eject again
- re-elect — to choose or select by vote, as for an office: to elect a mayor. Antonyms: reject.
- re-enact — to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- re-erect — to put up, construct, or build again
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- redefect — to defect back or again
- redirect — to direct again.
- reindict — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- reinfect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- reinject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.
- reobject — to object again
- reselect — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- retroact — to act in opposition; react.
- riot act — an English statute of 1715 providing that if 12 or more persons assemble unlawfully and riotously, to the disturbance of the public peace, and refuse to disperse upon proclamation they shall be considered guilty of felony.
- suberect — not quite erect
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- succinct — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- test act — any law requiring a person to belong to the established church of a country as a condition for holding public office.
- topolect — the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language.
- transact — to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement. Synonyms: enact, conclude, settle, manage, negotiate.
- transect — to cut across; dissect transversely.
- underact — to play (a role) without adequate emphasis
- unselect — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- usufruct — the right of enjoying all the advantages derivable from the use of something that belongs to another, as far as is compatible with the substance of the thing not being destroyed or injured.
- vivisect — to dissect the living body of (an animal).