8-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anecdata — anecdotal evidence based on personal observations or opinions, random investigations, etc., but presented as fact: biased arguments supported by anecdata.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- animatic — an initial edition or forerunner of a film, often a commercial, which contains a sequence of storyboard shots accompanied by a soundtrack
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
- anthemic — (of a song) like an anthem in being rousing or uplifting.
- antiacid — Antacid.
- antiacne — inhibiting the development of acne
- anticity — opposed to cities
- anticize — to play absurdly, or perform antics
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- anticult — opposed to religious cults
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antipyic — acting against or preventing suppuration
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- atechnic — a person who has no technical or scientific ability or understanding
- atlantic — of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- bacchant — a priest or votary of Bacchus
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- benefact — to be a benefactor to
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- boatneck — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
- ca-telon — (application) A Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool for designing, generating and maintaining COBOL and PL/I application programs. Telon was developed by Pansophic Systems who were bought by Computer Associates in 1991, whereupon it was renamed CA-Telon. It supports high-level, non-prodedural design and prototyping, combined with automatic code generation. There are mainframe and PC versions. The generated COBOL applications can execute in AIX, HP-UX, VSE, OS/400 for the AS/400, PC-DOS, or OS/2.