8-letter words containing a, m, e, s
- amundsen — Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
- amusable — capable of being amused
- amusedly — in a way that shows one is amused
- amusette — a type of light field cannon
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- amylases — Plural form of amylase.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anemones — Plural form of anemone.
- 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.
- aneurysm — a sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel
- animates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animate.
- annamese — of or relating to Annam
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- anthemis — a genus of aromatic herbs of the family Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum and native to the Mediterranean region and SW Asia
- aphetism — The aphetized form of a word, i.e. a word which has dropped its initial vowel or syllable. For example, see squire.
- apomixes — Plural form of apomixis.
- armholes — Plural form of armhole.
- armoires — Plural form of armoire.
- armorers — Plural form of armorer.
- armories — (US) Plural form of armory.
- armrests — Plural form of armrest.
- arms-eye — the armhole opening in a garment.
- aseismic — denoting a region free of earthquakes
- ashmedai — (tool) A symbolic mathematics package by Michael Levine <[email protected]> that influenced SMP and FORM. There are versions for the Univac 1108 and VAX/VMS.
- asmodeus — (in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
- asmonean — Hasmonean.
- aspermia — the failure to form or emit semen
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- assamese — the state language of Assam, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family and closely related to Bengali
- assemble — When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting.
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- asterism — three asterisks arranged in a triangle (⁂ or ), to draw attention to the text that follows
- at times — You use at times to say that something happens or is true on some occasions or at some moments.
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- atomises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomise.
- atomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomize.
- attempts — An act of trying to achieve something, typically one that is unsuccessful or not certain to succeed.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.