8-letter words ending in ENE

8-letter words 34

• kerosenea flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
• gangrenenecrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
• ethylenea flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic
• neoprenea synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products
• phosgenea colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare
• oncogenea gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells
• carotenean orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver
• limonenea liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils
• pyroxeneany of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks
• squalene
• gadarene
• lycopenecarotenoid that makes tomatoes red; may lower the risk of prostate cancer
• gasolenea volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
• indigenean indigenous person who was born in a particular place
• isoprene
• stilbene
• antigene
• butyleneany of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers
• camphene
• cymogene
• fluorene
• gasogene
• gazogene
• hegumene
• hypogene
• menthene
• polygenea gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations
• polytene
• pulicene
• retineneeither of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light
• terebene
• xanthene
• zygotenethe second stage of the prophase of meiosis
• zymogene