8-letter words containing a, i, s
- activist — An activist is a person who works to bring about political or social changes by campaigning in public or working for an organization.
- actorish — of, relating to, or characteristic of an actor
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- adamsite — a yellow poisonous crystalline solid that readily sublimes; diphenylaminechlorarsine. It is used in chemical warfare as a vomiting agent. Formula: C6H4AsClNHC6H4; relative density: 1.65; melting pt: 195°C; boiling pt: 410°C
- adenitis — inflammation of a gland or lymph node
- adenoids — Adenoids are soft lumps of flesh at the back and top of a person's throat that sometimes become swollen and have to be removed.
- adenosis — a minor glandular condition typified by swelling of the lymph glands
- adessive — a grammatical case in Finno-Ugric languages indicating place
- adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
- adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
- adiposis — obesity or excessive fatness
- adjoints — Plural form of adjoint.
- admirals — Plural form of admiral.
- admirers — to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
- adonises — Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- adscript — a serf bound to the land which they work or occupy, and who can be bought or sold along with it
- adultism — A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children).
- advisees — one of a group of students assigned to a faculty adviser for help in selection of a course of studies.
- advisers — Plural form of adviser.
- advising — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- advisors — Plural form of advisor.
- advisory — An advisory group regularly gives suggestions and help to people or organizations, especially about a particular subject or area of activity.
- aeacides — a patronymic for any of the descendants of Aeacus, as Achilles, Peleus, and Telamon.
- aequalis — (grammar) The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to
- aerobics — Aerobics is a form of exercise which increases the amount of oxygen in your blood, and strengthens your heart and lungs. The verb that follows aerobics may be either singular or plural.
- aesculin — a chemical found in the bark of horse-chestnut trees
- aesopian — of Aesop or characteristic of his fables
- aestival — of or occurring in summer
- afflicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of afflict.
- affusion — the baptizing of a person by pouring water onto his head
- afghanis — Plural form of afghani.
- afrasian — of Afrasia.
- agaricus — any mushroom of the genus Agaricus, comprising the meadow mushrooms and a commercially grown species, A. brunnescens.
- agathism — The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
- agathist — A person who believes in agathism.
- agencies — Plural form of agency.
- agenesia — absence of or failed development of a body part.
- agenesis — (of an animal or plant) imperfect development
- agerasia — An outward appearance more youthful than one's true age.
- agitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agitate.
- aglisten — refulgent; glistening.
- aglossia — congenital absence of the tongue
- agnostic — An agnostic believes that it is not possible to know whether God exists or not. Compare atheist.
- agonised — Simple past tense and past participle of agonise.
- agonists — Plural form of agonist.
- agonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agonize.
- agostini — Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). born 1942, Italian racing motorcyclist: world champion (500 cc. class) 1966–72, 1975; (350 cc. class) 1968–74
- agrestic — rural; rustic
- aguishly — in an aguish manner