8-letter words containing a, n, e, r
- albronze — aluminum bronze.
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alderman — In some parts of the United States and Canada, an alderman is a member of the governing body of a city.
- aldermen — Plural form of alderman.
- alderney — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel: separated from the French coast by a dangerous tidal channel (the Race of Alderney). Pop: 2294 (2001). Area: 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
- alerting — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- aleurone — finely granulated protein present in seeds generally and forming the outer layer of cereal seeds
- algerian — Algerian means belonging or relating to Algeria, or its people or culture.
- algerine — of or relating to Algeria or its inhabitants
- algernon — a masculine name: dim. Algie, Algy
- alienors — Plural form of alienor.
- allergen — An allergen is a substance that causes an allergic reaction in someone.
- alterant — that which alters the state of something
- altering — to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course.
- alternat — the practice of deciding precedence by lot
- amberina — a characteristic of a type of glassware known for its blended colours, containing amber at the base merging into red higher up the piece
- amelcorn — a variety of wheat used to produce starch
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amrinone — a potent substance, C 10 H 9 N 3 O, used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anadrome — A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
- anaerobe — an organism that does not require oxygen for respiration
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyzer — An analyzer is a piece of equipment used to analyze the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- andersen — Hans Christian. 1805–75, Danish author of fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen
- anderson — a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)
- andretti — Mario. born 1940, US racing driver: Formula One world champion (1978)
- andrewes — Lancelot. 1555–1626, English bishop and theologian
- andreyev — ˌLeonid Nikolaˈyevich (ˌlɛɔˈnidˌ nikɔlɑˈjeɪvɪtʃ ) ; leˌ^ōnēdˈ nēˌk^ōläyāˈvich) 1871-1919; Russ. playwright, novelist, & short-story writer
- androgen — any of several steroids, produced as hormones by the testes or made synthetically, that promote development of male sexual organs and male secondary sexual characteristics
- anephric — (pathology) Without functioning kidneys.
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- aneurine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- 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
- angerful — Full of anger, expressing anger.
- angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- angerona — the ancient Roman goddess of anguish.
- 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.
- anhedral — the downward inclination of an aircraft wing in relation to the lateral axis
- animater — animator
- ankerite — a greyish to brown mineral that resembles dolomite and consists of a carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and iron. Formula: (Ca,Mg,Fe)CO3
- anointer — One who anoints.