8-letter words containing a, i, s
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alembics — Plural form of alembic.
- alewives — Plural form of alewife.
- algorism — the Arabic or decimal system of counting
- aliasing — the error in a vision or sound signal arising from limitations in the system that generates or processes the signal
- alidades — Plural form of alidade.
- alienees — Plural form of alienee.
- alienism — the study and treatment of mental illness
- alienist — a psychiatrist who specializes in the legal aspects of mental illness
- alienors — Plural form of alienor.
- aliments — that which nourishes; nutriment; food.
- alinasal — (anatomy) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
- aliquots — Plural form of aliquot.
- alistair — a masculine name
- alkalies — Plural form of alkali.
- alkestis — Alcestis (def 1).
- allelism — any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- allision — the striking of one ship by another.
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- allusion — An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- allyship — The role or status of being an ally.
- almirahs — Plural form of almirah.
- alocasia — any of various tropical plants of the genus Alocasia
- aloysius — Saint. full name Aloysius Luigi Gonzaga. 1568–91, Italian Jesuit who died nursing plague victims; the patron saint of youth. Feast day: June 21
- alphosis — absence of skin pigmentation, as in albinism
- alpinism — mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
- alpinist — a mountaineer who climbs in medium-sized glaciated mountain areas such as the Alps
- alsatian — An Alsatian is a large, usually fierce dog that is often used to guard buildings or by the police to help them find criminals.
- altoists — Plural form of altoist.
- 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).
- alumni's — a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
- amadises — a knight-errant, model of the chivalric hero.
- amakhosi — Plural form of inkhosi.
- amassing — to gather for oneself; collect as one's own: to amass a huge amount of money.
- amazonis — an area on the equator of Mars.
- ambients — Plural form of ambient.
- ambrosia — In Greek mythology, ambrosia is the food of the gods.
- ameiosis — the absence of pairing of chromosomes during meiosis
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amidmost — in the middle or centre
- amidship — in or toward the middle part of a ship or aircraft; midway between the ends.
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- amissing — missing
- amission — (obsolete) deprivation; loss.
- amitosis — an unusual form of cell division in which the nucleus and cytoplasm divide by constriction without the formation of chromosomes; direct cell division
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.