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8-letter words containing a, i, r

  • alrighty — Lb informal Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
  • altamira — a cave in N Spain, SW of Santander, noted for Old Stone Age wall drawings
  • altering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
  • alterity — the quality of being different
  • altrices — altricial birds
  • altruism — Altruism is unselfish concern for other people's happiness and welfare.
  • altruist — a person unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoist).
  • amaretti — Italian almond biscuits
  • amarillo — an industrial city in NW Texas. Pop: 178 612 (2003 est)
  • amberina — a characteristic of a type of glassware known for its blended colours, containing amber at the base merging into red higher up the piece
  • amberite — a powder made of guncotton, barium nitrate, and paraffin, which does not produce any smoke when ignited
  • amberoid — a synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of amber and other resins together at a high temperature
  • ambigram — A design that may be read as the same word, name or phrase (or sometimes two different words, names or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.
  • ambivert — a person who is intermediate between an extrovert and an introvert
  • ambrosia — In Greek mythology, ambrosia is the food of the gods.
  • amercing — Present participle of amerce.
  • american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
  • americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
  • americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
  • amirates — Plural form of amirate.
  • amitrole — a non-selective systemic herbicide used on non-food crops to control grasses and weeds
  • amoretti — a little cupid.
  • amorists — Plural form of amorist.
  • amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
  • amortise — amortize
  • amortize — In finance, if you amortize a debt, you pay it back in regular payments.
  • amourist — Alternative form of amorist.
  • amphoric — resembling the sound produced by blowing into a bottle. Amphoric breath sounds are heard through a stethoscope placed over a cavity in the lung
  • amratian — of, relating to, or belonging to the predynastic Chalcolithic culture that flourished in Upper Egypt about 3800 b.c., characterized by the working of raw gold, the use of copper, and the burial of the dead in shallow graves.
  • amravati — a town in central India, in NE Maharashtra: cotton centre. Pop: 549 370 (2001)
  • amrinone — a potent substance, C 10 H 9 N 3 O, used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
  • amritsar — a city in India, in NW Punjab: centre of the Sikh religion; site of a massacre in 1919 of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British troops; in 1984 the Golden Temple, fortified by Sikhs, was attacked by Indian troops with the loss of many Sikh lives. Pop: 975 695 (2001)
  • anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
  • andirons — Plural form of andiron.
  • andretti — Mario. born 1940, US racing driver: Formula One world champion (1978)
  • androids — Plural form of android.
  • anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
  • 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.
  • angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
  • 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.
  • animater — animator
  • animator — An animator is a person who makes films by means of animation.
  • aniridia — the absence of an iris, due to a congenital condition or an injury
  • 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.
  • anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
  • 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.
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