8-letter words containing a, n, t
- ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
- argental — relating to or containing silver
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- argentum — silver. Symbol: Ag.
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- armament — Armament is used to refer to weapons and bombs carried by an aircraft or other military vehicle.
- armgaunt — (of limbs) slender
- army ant — any of various mainly tropical American predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animals
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arrantly — downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
- arretine — of or relating to Arretium (the ancient Latin name of Arezzo, a city in central Italy)
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arsenate — a salt or ester of arsenic acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O43–
- arsenite — a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
- arsonist — An arsonist is a person who deliberately sets fire to a building or vehicle.
- art song — a song written by a trained composer to convey a specific artistic idea, as in projecting the mood and meaning of a poetic text
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- artisans — a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- ashplant — a walking stick made from an ash sapling
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- assiento — a slave trade treaty between other countries and Spain which allowed other countries to supply slaves to Spanish dependencies or colonies
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- assonant — resemblance of sounds.
- assonate — to display assonance or match in sound
- astatine — a radioactive element of the halogen series: a decay product of uranium and thorium that occurs naturally in minute amounts and is artificially produced by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. Symbol: At; atomic no: 85; half-life of most stable isotope, 210At: 8.1 hours; probable valency: 1,3,5, or 7; melting pt: 302°C; boiling pt: 337°C (est)
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asternal — not connected or joined to the sternum
- asthenia — an abnormal loss of strength; debility
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astonish — If something or someone astonishes you, they surprise you very much.
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- at night — If it is a particular time at night, it is during the time when it is dark and is before midnight.
- atabrine — quinacrine hydrochloride, C23H30ClN3O·2HCl·2H2O, a synthetic drug used in treating malaria and other diseases
- atalanta — a maiden who agreed to marry any man who could defeat her in a running race. She lost to Hippomenes when she paused to pick up three golden apples that he had deliberately dropped
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- atechnic — a person who has no technical or scientific ability or understanding
- atenolol — a type of beta-blocker that is taken by mouth and is used to treat angina and high blood pressure
- athanasy — an absence of death or the condition of everlasting life
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- atheneum — (initial capital letter) a sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars.