8-letter words containing a, c, u
- acquight — to acquit
- acquired — obtained, through buying or being given
- acquiree — a firm that is acquired
- acquirer — In business, an acquirer is a company or person who buys another company.
- acquires — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- acquited — Simple past tense and past participle of acquit.
- act upon — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- actinium — a radioactive element of the actinide series, occurring as a decay product of uranium. It is used as an alpha-particle source and in neutron production. Symbol: Ac; atomic no: 89; half-life of most stable isotope,227Ac: 21.6 years; relative density: 10.07; melting pt: 1051°C; boiling pt: 3200 ± 300°C
- actually — You use actually to indicate that a situation exists or happened, or to emphasize that it is true.
- actuated — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- actuator — An actuator is a machine or part of a machine which moves or controls another part in response to an input.
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- aculeate — cutting; pointed
- acupoint — any of the specific points on the body where a needle is inserted in acupuncture or pressure is applied in acupressure
- acutance — a physical rather than subjective measure of the sharpness of a photographic image
- adducent — that adducts
- adducing — Present participle of adduce.
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adductor — a muscle that adducts
- adequacy — Adequacy is the quality of being good enough or great enough in amount to be acceptable.
- adjuncts — Plural form of adjunct.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- aduncity — the quality of being hooked or curved inward
- aecidium — an aecium
- aedicula — aedicule.
- aedicule — an opening such as a door or a window, framed by columns on either side, and a pediment above
- aeroduct — an air duct
- aesculin — a chemical found in the bark of horse-chestnut trees
- agaricus — any mushroom of the genus Agaricus, comprising the meadow mushrooms and a commercially grown species, A. brunnescens.
- aguacate — an avocado
- air duct — a pipe or channel permitting air to travel through a system, building, or other structure, such as a mine
- alchuine — (Ealhwine Flaccus) a.d. 735–804, English theologian and scholar: teacher and adviser of Charlemagne.
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alguacil — a Spanish law officer similar to a sheriff or chief constable
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- aluminic — of or relating to aluminium
- amaracus — a genus of herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amuletic — having the qualities of a charm
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancohuma — one of the two peaks of Mount Sorata
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- anticult — opposed to religious cults
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate