8-letter words containing a, n, o, t, i
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- gloating — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- gnathion — Craniometry. the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goatling — a young goat
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
- hamilton — William Hamilton
- himation — a garment consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth thrown over the left shoulder and wrapped about the body.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- ideation — the process of forming ideas or images.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- illation — the act of inferring.
- in total — altogether
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- inornate — Not ornate.
- insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- intaglio — incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief.
- intonaco — (formerly in fresco painting) the last and finest coat of plaster, usually applied in sections and painted while still damp with colors ground in water or a lime-water mixture.
- intonate — to utter with a particular tone or modulation of voice.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- invocate — invoke.
- iodinate — to iodize.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- janitors — Plural form of janitor.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kantikoy — a ceremonial dance of some Native American tribes, often involving sacrifices
- karyotin — chromatin
- lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lanosity — lanate.
- lavation — the process of washing.
- laxation — a loosening or relaxing.
- lay into — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.