8-letter words containing a, i, s
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnesias — Plural form of amnesia.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amorists — Plural form of amorist.
- amortise — amortize
- amourist — Alternative form of amorist.
- 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)
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- anacusis — total deafness.
- analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
- analyzis — Nonstandard spelling of analysis.
- anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
- anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- andesine — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase series consisting of an aluminium silicate of sodium and calcium. Formula: NaAlSi3O8.CaAl2Si2O8
- andesite — a fine-grained tan or grey volcanic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, esp andesine, amphibole, and pyroxene
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- androids — Plural form of android.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anemosis — spacing between the annual rings in wood that is caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- aneurism — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- anfinsen — Christian Boehmer. 1916–95, US biochemist, noted for his research on the structure of enzymes. Nobel prize for chemistry 1972
- angiitis — A condition where blood or lymph vessels are inflamed.
- anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angiomas — Plural form of angioma.
- anglaise — an old English country-dance.
- 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.
- anhingas — Plural form of anhinga.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- animates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animate.
- animists — Plural form of animist.
- anisette — a liquorice-flavoured liqueur made from aniseed
- annalise — record in annals
- annalist — a writer of annals
- annelids — Plural form of annelid.
- annexins — Plural form of annexin.
- anniston — a city in E Alabama.
- anoopsia — a form of squint in which the eye turns upwards
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- ansi x12 — (standard) Standards defining the structure, format, and content of business transactions conducted through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ANSI X12 is produced by the committee ASC X12, supported by the Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (DISA).
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antbirds — Plural form of antbird.
- anthemis — a genus of aromatic herbs of the family Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum and native to the Mediterranean region and SW Asia
- anthesis — the time when a flower becomes sexually functional
- anthills — Plural form of anthill.