8-letter words that end in te
- calcrete — A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.
- calebite — a member of a tribe descended from Caleb.
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campsite — A campsite is a place where people who are on holiday can stay in tents.
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capitate — shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- capriote — a native or inhabitant of Capri.
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- casemate — an armoured compartment in a ship or fortification in which guns are mounted
- cassette — A cassette is a small, flat, rectangular plastic case containing magnetic tape which is used for recording and playing back sound or film.
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- catamite — a boy kept for sexual purposes
- catenate — to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
- catolyte — the part of the electrolyte that surrounds the cathode in an electrolytic cell
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- cellmate — In a prison, someone's cellmate is the person they share their cell with.
- cenobite — a member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
- 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.
- chamotte — grog (def 3).
- charente — a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
- charette — a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
- chavette — a young working-class woman whose tastes, although sometimes expensive, are considered vulgar by some
- cheddite — an explosive made by mixing a powdered chlorate or perchlorate with a fatty substance, such as castor oil
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chlorite — any of a group of green soft secondary minerals consisting of the hydrated silicates of aluminium, iron, and magnesium in monoclinic crystalline form: common in metamorphic rocks
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chouette — a variation of a two-handed game, as backgammon, allowing the participation of three or more persons, in which one player accepts the bets of all the others on the outcome of a game between that player and one other active player, who is permitted to receive advice from the nonplayers.
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- ciminite — a rock containing large quantities of trachyte
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- cineaste — an enthusiast for films
- clemente — Roberto Walker [roh-bair-toh] /roʊˈbɛər toʊ/ (Show IPA), 1934–72, U.S. baseball player, born in Puerto Rico.
- cleveite — a crystalline variety of the mineral uranitite
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- co-wrote — to coauthor.
- cocreate — to create jointly
- coequate — to equate with something else
- cogitate — If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- cohenite — a rare microscopic mineral, carbide of iron, nickel, or cobalt, (Fe, Ni, Co) 3 C, found in lunar rocks and some meteorites.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter