8-letter words containing a, e, s
- accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accesses — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accessor — Someone or something that accesses.
- accosted — (of animals) represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted.
- accresce — (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
- accretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete.
- accursed — Some people use accursed to describe something which they are very annoyed about.
- accuseds — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- accusers — Plural form of accuser.
- accusive — Accusative.
- acescent — slightly sour or turning sour
- acetates — Plural form of acetate.
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achenese — Atjehnese.
- achieves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve.
- achilles — Greek hero, the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis: in the Iliad the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy. While he was a baby his mother plunged him into the river Styx making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. After slaying Hector, he was killed by Paris who wounded him in the heel
- achinese — Atjehnese.
- achiness — a constant, dull pain
- acidness — Acidity, sourness.
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- acolytes — Plural form of acolyte.
- aconites — Plural form of aconite.
- acquires — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- acreages — Plural form of acreage.
- acrosome — a cap-like structure on the tip of a spermatozoon that releases enzymes on encountering the ovum allowing fusion with the ovum in the sexual reproductive process; this part of the process is known as the acrosome reaction
- actives' — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- activise — to make active; activate.
- actoress — Alternative form of actress.
- actressy — exaggerated and affected in manner; theatrical
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- adamsite — a yellow poisonous crystalline solid that readily sublimes; diphenylaminechlorarsine. It is used in chemical warfare as a vomiting agent. Formula: C6H4AsClNHC6H4; relative density: 1.65; melting pt: 195°C; boiling pt: 410°C
- adapters — Plural form of adapter.
- addendas — a plural of addendum.
- addorsed — placed back to back
- adenitis — inflammation of a gland or lymph node
- adenoids — Adenoids are soft lumps of flesh at the back and top of a person's throat that sometimes become swollen and have to be removed.
- adenomas — Plural form of adenoma.
- adenosis — a minor glandular condition typified by swelling of the lymph glands
- adespota — anonymous works of poetry
- adessive — a grammatical case in Finno-Ugric languages indicating place
- adherers — Plural form of adherer.
- adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
- adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
- adjudges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudge.
- adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships
- adjuster — An adjuster is a device which allows you to alter a piece of equipment's position or setting.
- admirers — to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- adonises — Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- adoptees — Plural form of adoptee.