8-letter words containing a, n, d
- armbands — Plural form of armband.
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
- asconoid — pertaining to or resembling an ascon.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- assidean — a member of a sect, characterized by its religious zeal and piety, that flourished in the 2nd century b.c. during the time of the Maccabees and vigorously resisted the Hellenization of Jewish culture and religion.
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- attained — to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.
- attended — to be present at: to attend a lecture; to attend church.
- attendee — The attendees at something such as a meeting or a conference are the people who are attending it.
- attender — The attenders at a particular place or event are the people who go there.
- auckland — the chief port of New Zealand, in the northern part of North Island: former capital of New Zealand (1840–65). Pop: 450 300 (2010 est)
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- audioone — (tool, music) Digital recording and editing software developed by BizTrack Software Development for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- aunthood — the state of being, or relationship of, aunt
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- awakened — Rouse from sleep; cause to stop sleeping.
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- back end — autumn
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backbond — a legal document qualifying the terms of a bond or explaining the purpose for which a bond has been granted
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backhand — A backhand is a shot in tennis or squash, which you make with your arm across your body.
- backland — undeveloped land behind a developed property
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- bad bank — a financial institution set up to hold and manage underperforming assets owned by other banks
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- badalona — a port in NE Spain: an industrial suburb of Barcelona. Pop: 214 440 (2003 est)
- badarian — designating or of a Neolithic culture of Egypt, characterized by cattle-breeding, fine pottery, and a large range of ornaments
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- badinage — Badinage is humorous or light-hearted conversation that often involves teasing someone.
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- bailbond — a document in which a prisoner and one or more sureties guarantee that the prisoner will attend the court hearing of the charge against him if he is released on bail