8-letter words containing a, e, r
- anywhere — You use anywhere in statements with negative meaning to indicate that a place does not exist.
- aperient — laxative
- aperitif — An aperitif is an alcoholic drink that you have before a meal.
- apertion — (archaic) The act of opening.
- aperture — An aperture is a narrow hole or gap.
- aphorise — To create an aphorism.
- aphorize — to write or speak in aphorisms
- apiaries — Plural form of apiary.
- aplustre — the ornamental stern on an ancient Greek or Roman ship
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- apparate — (obsolete) apparatus.
- apparell — Obsolete form of apparel.
- apparels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apparel.
- apparent — An apparent situation, quality, or feeling seems to exist, although you cannot be certain that it does exist.
- appealer — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
- appeared — to come into sight; become visible: A man suddenly appeared in the doorway.
- appearer — a person who appears
- appeaser — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- appellor — the accuser or prosecutor
- appender — (computing) A software component that appends data to a computer file.
- apporter — (obsolete) A bringer in; an importer.
- appraise — If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- apprised — appraise.
- appriser — a person who appraises
- apprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprise.
- apprized — Simple past tense and past participle of apprize.
- apprizer — An appraiser.
- apprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprize.
- approved — An approved method or course of action is officially accepted as appropriate in a particular situation.
- approver — a person who approves
- approves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve.
- apricate — to sunbathe or bask in the sun
- apterium — a bare patch on the skin of a bird between the feathered pterylae
- apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- apyrases — Plural form of apyrase.
- apyretic — without fever
- apyrexia — absence of fever
- aquifers — Plural form of aquifer.
- arabella — a feminine name: dim. Bella
- arabises — any plant of the genus Arabis, including the rock cresses.
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- aral sea — a lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, east of the Caspian Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world: shallow and saline, now badly polluted; use of its source waters for irrigation led to a loss of over 50% of its area between 1967 and 1997, after which the reduction began to be slowed. Area originally (to 1960) about 68 000 sq km (26 400 sq miles); water area reduced by 2004 to about 17 158 sq km (6625 sq miles) and the lake divided into sections
- araldite — a strong epoxy resin best known as a glue
- aramaean — of or relating to Aram (the biblical name for ancient Syria)
- araneose — arachnoid, especially as a plant.
- araneous — resembling a spider's web
- arapahoe — Arapaho.
- arbalest — a large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means