8-letter words containing a, c, e, s
- alcaides — Plural form of alcaide.
- alcestis — the wife of king Admetus of Thessaly. To save his life, she died in his place, but was rescued from Hades by Hercules
- alchevsk — a city in E Ukraine. Pop: 117 000 (2005 est)
- alembics — Plural form of alembic.
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- altrices — altricial birds
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archness — the quality of being arch, or saucily mischievous
- archwise — like an arch
- articles — legal training
- asbestic — relating to asbestos
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascetics — Plural form of ascetic.
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- ascribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.
- aseismic — denoting a region free of earthquakes
- aspected — (astrology, obsolete) Subject to a particular planetary aspect.
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- aspheric — a lens that has a shape that is not completely round
- asscheek — (vulgar slang) A buttock.
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- attaches — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- backends — Plural form of backend.