8-letter words containing a, e, r
- 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.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- andersen — Hans Christian. 1805–75, Danish author of fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen
- anderson — a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)
- andretti — Mario. born 1940, US racing driver: Formula One world champion (1978)
- andrewes — Lancelot. 1555–1626, English bishop and theologian
- andreyev — ˌLeonid Nikolaˈyevich (ˌlɛɔˈnidˌ nikɔlɑˈjeɪvɪtʃ ) ; leˌ^ōnēdˈ nēˌk^ōläyāˈvich) 1871-1919; Russ. playwright, novelist, & short-story writer
- androgen — any of several steroids, produced as hormones by the testes or made synthetically, that promote development of male sexual organs and male secondary sexual characteristics
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- aneurine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- aneurism — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- aneurysm — a sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel
- angerful — Full of anger, expressing anger.
- angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- angerona — the ancient Roman goddess of anguish.
- angriest — feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
- anhedral — the downward inclination of an aircraft wing in relation to the lateral axis
- animater — animator
- ankerite — a greyish to brown mineral that resembles dolomite and consists of a carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and iron. Formula: (Ca,Mg,Fe)CO3
- anointer — One who anoints.
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorexia — Anorexia or anorexia nervosa is an illness in which a person has an overwhelming fear of becoming fat, and so refuses to eat enough and becomes thinner and thinner.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anregend — Stimulating, inspiring.
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- answered — Simple past tense and past participle of answer.
- answerer — someone who answers
- ant bear — a large, ant-eating, edentate mammal (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of Central America and tropical South America, with a long, shaggy tail; giant anteater
- antbears — Plural form of antbear.
- anteater — An anteater is an animal with a long nose that eats termites or ants. Anteaters live in warm countries.
- anterior — Anterior describes a part of the body that is situated at or towards the front of another part.
- anteroom — An anteroom is a small room leading into a larger room.
- antevert — to displace (an organ or part) by tilting it forward
- antihero — An antihero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- antimere — a part or organ of a bilaterally or radially symmetrical organism that corresponds to a similar structure on the other side of the axis, such as the right or left limb of a four-legged animal
- antiquer — a person who alters the appearance of objects to give an antique quality
- antirape — opposed to or acting against rape
- antirent — noting or pertaining to a political party (1839–47) in New York that opposed the payment of rents to patroons.
- antisera — a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- antiwear — preventing deterioration as a result of use
- antlered — having antlers
- antrorse — directed or pointing upwards or forwards
- anuresis — inability to urinate even though urine is formed by the kidneys and retained in the urinary bladder
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.