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8-Letter Words That Start With: TEND

There are 8 8-letter words, 1 8-letter phrase and 0 8-letter abbr's that start with TEND.

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tendency8
14 nounn
noun

• an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

• an inclination to do something

• a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

• a general direction in which something tends to move

tenderly8
12 adverbadv
adverb

• with tenderness; in a tender manner

tendance8
11 nounn
noun

• The act of attending or waiting; attendance.

• Persons in attendance; attendants.

tendence8
11
Valid word for Scrabble US
tendered8
10 verbv
adjective

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

noun

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

adjective satellite

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

verb

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

tenderer8
9 nounn
adjective

• Sensitive or painful to the touch.

• Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

• Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

• (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

• Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

• Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

• Young and inexperienced.

• Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

• Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

• Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

• Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

• Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

noun

• One who tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).

tendrils8
9 nounn
noun

• slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

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