8-letter words containing a, n, i, s, o
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- cyanosis — a bluish-purple discoloration of skin and mucous membranes usually resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood
- daimones — disembodied souls
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diamonds — one of the four suits in an ordinary pack of cards bearing red lozenge-shapes symbols
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- dionysia — The orgiastic Ancient Greek festivals seasonally held in honor of Dionysus, which evolved into Greek comedy and tragedy.
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- esthonia — Estonia
- estonian — of Estonia
- evasions — Plural form of evasion.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- farinose — yielding farina.
- fashions — Plural form of fashion.
- fashiony — of or relating to fashion; fashionable; trendy
- favonius — the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- gasoline — a volatile, flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines, as a solvent, etc.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- hispano- — Hispanic
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- insomnia — inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- insuloma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- isangoma — Alternative form of sangoma.
- isanomal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal anomaly of a meteorological quantity.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.