8-letter words containing a, r, n
- artisans — a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- aryanize — (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- asnieres — a suburb of Paris, France, on the Seine. Pop: 82 720 (2006)
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- aspirins — Plural form of aspirin.
- 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
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- assyrian — an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- 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
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- atabrine — quinacrine hydrochloride, C23H30ClN3O·2HCl·2H2O, a synthetic drug used in treating malaria and other diseases
- atherine — any of several small fish of the genus Atherina
- atherton — Mike, full name Michael Andrew Atherton. born 1968, English cricketer: played for Lancashire (1987–2001) and England (1989–2001); captain of England (1993–1998)
- atrament — a liquid substance that is black in colour
- atrazine — a white crystalline compound widely used as a weedkiller. Formula: C8H14N5Cl
- atropine — a poisonous alkaloid obtained from deadly nightshade, having an inhibitory action on the autonomic nervous system. It is used medicinally in pre-anaesthetic medication, to speed a slow heart rate, and as an emergency first-aid counter to exposure to chemical warfare nerve agents. Formula: C17H23NO3
- attainer — a person who attains or achieves something
- attender — The attenders at a particular place or event are the people who go there.
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.
- aularian — a student at an English university who belongs to a hall as opposed to a college
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- aurelian — Latin name Lucius Domitius Aurelianus. ?212–275 ad, Roman emperor (270–275), who conquered Palmyra (273) and restored political unity to the Roman Empire
- aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- aurorean — of or resembling dawn
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- averment — the act of averring.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- awakener — a person or thing that awakens
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire