8-letter words starting with TE
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter TE. This section showcases how TE at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with TE, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| terrible | 10 | causing fear or dread or terror | a terrible curse |
| teaching | 14 | the profession of a teacher | he prepared for teaching while still in college |
| terrific | 13 | causing extreme terror | - |
| terribly | 13 | used as intensifiers | terribly interesting |
| teenager | 9 | a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | - |
| terminal | 10 | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves | - |
| telegram | 11 | a message transmitted by telegraph | - |
| tempered | 13 | made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | a sword of tempered steel |
| tempting | 13 | very pleasantly inviting | a tempting repast |
| tendency | 14 | a general direction in which something tends to move | the shoreward tendency of the current |
| teamwork | 17 | cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | it will take money, good planning and, above all, teamwork |
| temporal | 12 | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | - |
| textbook | 21 | according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | a textbook example |
| testicle | 10 | one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | - |
| telecast | 10 | broadcast via television | - |
| tectonic | 12 | of or pertaining to construction or architecture | - |
| teleport | 10 | transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
| teammate | 12 | a fellow member of a team | it was his first start against his former teammates |
| tenderly | 12 | with tenderness; in a tender manner | tenderly she placed her arms round him |
| teahouse | 11 | a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | - |
| terminus | 10 | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | - |
| teaspoon | 10 | as much as a teaspoon will hold | - |
| tenement | 10 | a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | - |
| telltale | 8 | someone who gossips indiscreetly | - |
| template | 12 | a model or standard for making comparisons | - |
| tenacity | 13 | persistent determination | - |
| teething | 12 | the eruption through the gums of baby teeth | - |
| tethered | 12 | confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain | - |
| tentacle | 10 | any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
| tefillin | 11 | (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | - |
| teardrop | 11 | a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | - |
| teenaged | 10 | being of the age 13 through 19 | - |
| teriyaki | 15 | beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled | - |
| teamster | 10 | someone who drives a truck as an occupation | - |
| telepath | 13 | - | - |
| temerity | 13 | fearless daring | - |
| tertiary | 11 | coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | - |
| textured | 16 | having surface roughness | a textured wall of stucco |
| telethon | 11 | - | - |
| teletype | 13 | - | - |
| technics | 15 | - | - |
| teeniest | 8 | - | - |
| televise | 11 | broadcast via television | The Royal wedding was televised |
| terraced | 11 | - | - |
| telefilm | 13 | a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
| tenderer | 9 | - | - |
| testable | 10 | - | - |
| teakwood | 16 | hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | - |
| teletext | 15 | - | - |
| teratoma | 10 | a tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site | - |
| teardown | 12 | - | - |
| tearless | 8 | free from tears | - |
| teetotal | 8 | practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | no thank you; I happen to be teetotal |
| tendance | 11 | - | - |
| teaberry | 13 | creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | - |
| teaboard | 11 | - | - |
| teabowls | 13 | - | - |
| teaboxes | 17 | - | - |
| teabread | 11 | - | - |
| teacakes | 14 | - | - |
| teacarts | 10 | - | - |
| teachers | 13 | - | - |
| teagling | 10 | - | - |
| tealight | 12 | - | - |
| teamaker | 14 | - | - |
| teamings | 11 | - | - |
| teamwise | 13 | - | - |
| tearable | 10 | - | - |
| tearaway | 14 | characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | - |
| teariest | 8 | - | - |
| tearlike | 12 | - | - |
| tearooms | 10 | - | - |
| teasable | 10 | - | - |
| teaseled | 9 | - | - |
| teaseler | 8 | - | - |
| teashops | 13 | - | - |
| teasings | 9 | - | - |
| teatimes | 10 | - | - |
| teawares | 11 | - | - |
| teazeled | 18 | - | - |
| teazling | 18 | - | - |
| tebibyte | 15 | a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | - |
| techiest | 13 | - | - |
| technoid | 14 | - | - |
| tectites | 10 | - | - |
| teddered | 11 | - | - |
| tedesche | 14 | - | - |
| tedeschi | 14 | - | - |
| tedisome | 11 | - | - |
| teemless | 10 | - | - |
| teenages | 9 | - | - |
| teending | 10 | - | - |
| teendoms | 11 | - | - |
| teensier | 8 | - | - |
| teentier | 8 | - | - |
| teenybop | 15 | - | - |
| teetered | 9 | - | - |
| teethers | 11 | - | - |
| teetotum | 10 | a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | - |
| tefillah | 14 | - | - |
| tegmenta | 11 | - | - |
| tegminal | 11 | - | - |
| teguexin | 16 | - | - |
| tegument | 11 | a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | - |
| tegumina | 11 | - | - |
| teiglach | 14 | - | - |
| teinding | 10 | - | - |
| tektites | 12 | - | - |
| tektitic | 14 | - | - |
| telamons | 10 | - | - |
| telechir | 13 | - | - |
| telecine | 10 | - | - |
| telecomm | 14 | - | - |
| telecoms | 12 | - | - |
| telecons | 10 | - | - |
| telecopy | 15 | - | - |
| telegony | 12 | - | - |
| telemark | 14 | a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards | - |
| teleosts | 8 | - | - |
| telepics | 12 | - | - |
| teleplay | 13 | - | - |
| telerans | 8 | - | - |
| telergic | 11 | - | - |
| telesale | 8 | - | - |
| teleseme | 10 | - | - |
| teleshop | 13 | - | - |
| telestic | 10 | - | - |
| teletron | 8 | - | - |
| teleview | 14 | - | - |
| telework | 15 | - | - |
| telexing | 16 | - | - |
| telfered | 12 | - | - |
| telferic | 13 | - | - |
| telfords | 12 | - | - |
| telicity | 13 | - | - |
| tellable | 10 | - | - |
| tellared | 9 | - | - |
| tellered | 9 | - | - |
| tellings | 9 | - | - |
| tellural | 8 | - | - |
| telluric | 10 | of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | - |
| telluses | 8 | - | - |
| telneted | 9 | - | - |
| telogens | 9 | - | - |
| telomere | 10 | either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome | telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together |
| telphers | 13 | - | - |
| telsonic | 10 | - | - |
| temblors | 12 | - | - |
| temerous | 10 | - | - |
| temperas | 12 | - | - |
| temperer | 12 | - | - |
| tempests | 12 | - | - |
| tempings | 13 | - | - |
| templars | 12 | - | - |
| templets | 12 | - | - |
| tempters | 12 | - | - |
| tempuras | 12 | - | - |
| temulent | 10 | - | - |
| tenacula | 10 | - | - |
| tenaille | 8 | - | - |
| tenanted | 9 | resided in; having tenants | not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up |
| tenantry | 11 | tenants of an estate considered as a group | - |
| tendence | 11 | - | - |
| tendered | 10 | - | - |
| tendrils | 9 | - | - |
| tendrons | 9 | - | - |
| tenebrae | 10 | - | - |
| tenebrio | 10 | - | - |
| tenendum | 11 | - | - |
| tenesmic | 12 | - | - |
| tenesmus | 10 | painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome | - |
| tenfolds | 12 | - | - |
| teniases | 8 | - | - |
| teniasis | 8 | - | - |
| tennises | 8 | - | - |
| tennists | 8 | - | - |
| tenoners | 8 | - | - |
| tenoning | 9 | - | - |
| tenorini | 8 | - | - |
| tenorino | 8 | - | - |
| tenorist | 8 | a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | - |
| tenorite | 8 | - | - |
| tenorman | 10 | - | - |
| tenormen | 10 | - | - |
| tenoroon | 8 | a tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon | - |
| tenotomy | 13 | - | - |
| tenpence | 12 | a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
| tenpenny | 13 | - | - |
| tensible | 10 | - | - |
| tensibly | 13 | - | - |
| tensions | 8 | - | - |
| tentages | 9 | - | - |
| tentered | 9 | - | - |
| tentfuls | 11 | - | - |
| tentiest | 8 | - | - |
| tentigos | 9 | - | - |
| tentings | 9 | - | - |
| tentless | 8 | - | - |
| tentlike | 12 | - | - |
| tentoria | 8 | - | - |
| tentpole | 10 | - | - |
| tentwise | 11 | - | - |
| tenuious | 8 | - | - |
| tenurial | 8 | - | - |
| tenuring | 9 | - | - |
| teocalli | 10 | - | - |
| teosinte | 8 | - | - |
| tepaches | 15 | - | - |
| tepefied | 14 | - | - |
| tepefies | 13 | - | - |
| tephrite | 13 | - | - |
| tepidest | 11 | - | - |
| tepidity | 14 | a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | - |
| tequilas | 17 | - | - |
| tequilla | 17 | - | - |
| terabyte | 13 | a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes | - |
| teraflop | 13 | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system | - |
| teraglin | 9 | - | - |
| terakihi | 15 | - | - |
| teraohms | 13 | - | - |
| teraphim | 15 | - | - |
| teratism | 10 | - | - |
| teratoid | 9 | - | - |
| terawatt | 11 | - | - |
| terbiums | 12 | - | - |
| tercelet | 10 | male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | - |
| terebene | 10 | - | - |
| terebrae | 10 | - | - |
| terebras | 10 | - | - |
| tergites | 9 | - | - |
| terminer | 10 | - | - |
| termites | 10 | - | - |
| termitic | 12 | - | - |
| termless | 10 | - | - |
| termlies | 10 | - | - |
| termtime | 12 | - | - |
| ternions | 8 | - | - |
| terpenes | 10 | - | - |
| terpenic | 12 | - | - |
| terpines | 10 | - | - |
| terpinol | 10 | - | - |
| terraces | 10 | - | - |
| terrains | 8 | - | - |
| terranes | 8 | - | - |
| terrapin | 10 | any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water | - |
| terraria | 8 | - | - |
| terrases | 8 | - | - |
| terrasse | 8 | provide (a house) with a terrace | We terrassed the country house |
| terrazzo | 26 | - | - |
| terreens | 8 | - | - |
| terrella | 8 | - | - |
| terrenes | 8 | - | - |
| terriers | 8 | - | - |
| terrines | 8 | - | - |
| terroirs | 8 | - | - |
| tersions | 8 | - | - |
| tertials | 8 | - | - |
| tertians | 8 | - | - |
| terylene | 11 | a kind of polyester fabric | - |
| terzetta | 17 | - | - |
| terzetti | 17 | - | - |
| terzetto | 17 | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | - |
| tessella | 8 | a small tessera | - |
| tesserae | 8 | - | - |
| tesseral | 8 | - | - |
| testamur | 10 | - | - |
| testates | 8 | - | - |
| testator | 8 | a person who makes a will | - |
| testatum | 10 | - | - |
| testerns | 8 | - | - |
| testiest | 8 | - | - |
| testings | 9 | - | - |
| testoons | 8 | - | - |
| testrill | 8 | - | - |
| testrils | 8 | - | - |
| testudos | 9 | - | - |
| tetanics | 10 | - | - |
| tetanies | 8 | - | - |
| tetanise | 8 | - | - |
| tetanize | 17 | - | - |
| tetanoid | 9 | - | - |
| tetchier | 13 | - | - |
| tetchily | 16 | in an ill-natured and tetchy manner | `Are you sure?' he asked her tetchily |
| tetotums | 10 | - | - |
| tetracid | 11 | - | - |
| tetracts | 10 | - | - |
| tetradic | 11 | - | - |
| tetragon | 9 | a four-sided polygon | - |
| tetramer | 10 | - | - |
| tetrapla | 10 | - | - |
| tetrapod | 11 | a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages | - |
| tetrarch | 13 | - | - |
| tetraxon | 15 | - | - |
| tetrodes | 9 | - | - |
| tetronal | 8 | - | - |
| tetroses | 8 | - | - |
| tetroxid | 16 | - | - |
| tettered | 9 | - | - |
| tettixes | 15 | - | - |
| teuchats | 13 | - | - |
| teuchest | 13 | - | - |
| teuchter | 13 | - | - |
| teughest | 12 | - | - |
| tevatron | 11 | - | - |
| textiles | 15 | - | - |
| textings | 16 | - | - |
| textisms | 17 | - | - |
| textless | 15 | - | - |
| textonym | 20 | - | - |
| textuary | 18 | - | - |
| textural | 15 | - | - |
| textures | 15 | - | - |
