8-letter words containing a, e
- abducens — abducens nerve.
- abducent — (of a muscle) abducting
- abducted — Simple past tense and past participle of abduct.
- abductee — someone who is abducted
- abednego — one of Daniel's three companions who, together with Shadrach and Meshach, was miraculously saved from destruction in Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace (Daniel 3:12–30)
- abegging — in the act of begging
- abelmosk — a tropical bushy malvaceous plant, Hibiscus abelmoschus, cultivated for its yellow-and-crimson flowers and for its musk-scented seeds, which yield an oil used in perfumery
- abelungu — (South Africa, now chiefly pejorative) White people collectively.
- abeokuta — a town in W Nigeria, capital of Ogun state. Pop: 487 000 (2005 est)
- aberdare — a town in South Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 31 705 (2001)
- aberdeen — a city in NE Scotland, on the North Sea: centre for processing North Sea oil and gas; university (1494). Pop: 184 788 (2001)
- aberrant — Aberrant means unusual and not socially acceptable.
- aberrate — to deviate from what is normal or correct
- abessive — the grammatical case indicating absence
- abetment — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
- abetting — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
- abettors — Plural form of abettor.
- abeyance — a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- abeyancy — (rare) Abeyance.
- abhorred — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abhorrer — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abidable — Alternative spelling of abideable.
- abidance — the act or state of abiding.
- abide by — If you abide by a law, agreement, or decision, you do what it says you should do.
- abietate — a salt or ester of abietic acid.
- abiocoen — The non-living components of an environment, such as water, soil, air, etc.
- abiogeny — (biology) abiogenesis.
- abjectly — utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign
- ableness — (uncountable, now, rare) Ability of body or mind; power; force; vigor. (First attested from around 1350 to 1470.).
- abligate — (obsolete) To tie up so as to hinder from.
- abnegate — to deny to oneself; renounce (privileges, pleasure, etc)
- aboideau — a dyke with a sluicegate that allows flood water to drain but keeps the sea water out
- aboiteau — (Canada, Acadia) alternate form of aboideau.
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- abounded — to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
- abraided — Simple past tense and past participle of abraid.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- abridged — An abridged book or play has been made shorter by removing some parts of it.
- abridger — One who abridges. (First attested in the mid 16th century.).
- abridges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abridge.
- abristle — Bristling.
- abrocome — Either of the ratlike rodents that from the genus Abrocoma; rat chinchilla.
- abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
- abrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of abrupt.
- abseiled — Simple past tense and past participle of abseil.
- abseiler — Someone who abseils.
- absences — state of being away or not being present: I acted as supervisor in his absence. Your absence was noted on the records.
- absented — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.