8-letter words containing a, o, c
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- alocasia — any of various tropical plants of the genus Alocasia
- alogical — without logic
- alopecia — loss of hair, esp on the head; baldness
- alopecic — bald
- alt-rock — a genre of rock music regarded by its practitioners and fans as being outside the mainstream
- amelcorn — a variety of wheat used to produce starch
- amitotic — the direct method of cell division, characterized by simple cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of chromosomes.
- ammocete — ammocoete
- ammoniac — a strong-smelling gum resin obtained from the stems of the N Asian umbelliferous plant Dorema ammoniacum and formerly used as an expectorant, stimulant, perfume, and in porcelain cement
- amnionic — Amniotic.
- amniotic — of or relating to the amnion
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
- amphoric — resembling the sound produced by blowing into a bottle. Amphoric breath sounds are heard through a stethoscope placed over a cavity in the lung
- amplicon — A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.
- anabolic — of or relating to anabolism
- anaconda — a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anagogic — of or relating to an anagoge.
- analogic — based on, involving, or expressing an analogy.
- anamonic — A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a \"stem\" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
- anarcho- — Anarcho- combines with nouns and adjectives to form words indicating that something is both anarchistic and the other thing that is mentioned.
- anatomic — of or relating to anatomy
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- 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.
- ancohuma — one of the two peaks of Mount Sorata
- anconeal — Of or pertaining to the elbow.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anconoid — resembling the ancon or elbow
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound
- angelico — Fra (fra), original name Guido di Pietro; monastic name Fra Giovanni da Fiesole. ?1400–55, Italian fresco painter and Dominican friar
- aniconic — (of images of deities, symbols, etc) not portrayed in a human or animal form
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.