8-letter words containing a, i, o
- antifood — Opposing food.
- antifoul — (rare) Antifouling.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- 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.
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimony — a toxic metallic element that exists in two allotropic forms and occurs principally in stibnite. The stable form is a brittle silvery-white crystalline metal that is added to alloys to increase their strength and hardness and is used in semiconductors. Symbol: Sb; atomic no: 51; atomic wt: 121.757; valency: 0, –3, +3, or +5; relative density: 6.691; melting pt: 630.76°C; boiling pt: 1587°C
- antimuon — the antiparticle of a muon
- antinode — a point at which the amplitude of one of the two kinds of displacement in a standing wave has maximum value. Generally the other kind of displacement has its minimum value at this point
- antinome — a thing that contradicts or is contrary to another, an opposite
- antinomy — opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
- antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
- antiphon — a short passage, usually from the Bible, recited or sung as a response after certain parts of a liturgical service
- antipode — the exact or direct opposite
- antipole — the opposite pole
- antipope — a rival pope elected in opposition to one who has been canonically chosen
- antiporn — opposed to pornography
- antiriot — (of police officers, equipment, measures, etc) designed for or engaged in the control of crowds
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- antiroll — designed to prevent a vehicle from tilting
- antismog — acting to reduce smog, aimed at preventing smog
- antisnob — a person opposed to snobbery
- antonius — Marcus (ˈmɑːkəs)
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- aortitis — inflammation of the aorta
- apagogic — relating to apagoge
- apaporis — a river in S central Colombia, in the Amazon system, flowing SE to the Japurá River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- apertion — (archaic) The act of opening.
- aphelion — the point in its orbit when a planet or comet is at its greatest distance from the sun
- aphorise — To create an aphorism.
- aphorism — An aphorism is a short witty sentence which expresses a general truth or comment.
- aphorist — a person who makes or uses aphorisms.
- aphorize — to write or speak in aphorisms
- apikoros — A Jewish skeptic or apostate.
- apiology — the scientific study of bees
- apoapsis — the point in an elliptical orbit which is farthest from the object being orbited
- apocopic — of or relating to apocope
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- apodosis — the consequent of a conditional statement, as the game will be cancelled in if it rains the game will be cancelled
- apogamic — Of or relating to apogamy.
- apologia — An apologia is a statement in which you defend something that you strongly believe in, for example a way of life, a person's behaviour, or a philosophy.
- apologie — Archaic spelling of apology.
- apomixes — Plural form of apomixis.
- apomixis — (esp in plants) any of several types of asexual reproduction, such as parthenogenesis and apogamy, in which fertilization does not take place
- aporetic — Tending to doubt.
- apositia — a lack of appetite
- apositic — causing apositia
- apostilb — a unit of luminance equal to one ten thousandth of a lambert.
- appoints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appoint.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.