8-letter words containing a, s, c
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- almanacs — Plural form of almanac.
- alocasia — any of various tropical plants of the genus Alocasia
- altrices — altricial birds
- amaracus — a genus of herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- anacusis — total deafness.
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- anasarca — a generalized accumulation of serous fluid within the subcutaneous connective tissue, resulting in oedema
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- aphasiac — pertaining to or affected with aphasia.
- apiculus — a small point or tip
- aplastic — relating to or characterized by aplasia
- apofocus — Apocenter.
- apositic — causing apositia
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- aquacise — A type of physical exercise practiced in water mostly vertically and without swimming, typically in a swimming pool in waist deep or deeper water.
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- aquiesce — Misspelling of acquiesce.
- araceous — belonging to the plant family Araceae.
- arbuscle — a small tree, or a plant halfway between a shrub and a tree
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- arcesius — a son of Zeus and Euryodia, father of Laertes, and grandfather of Odysseus.
- archaise — Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford.
- archaism — the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style
- archaist — something archaic, as a word or expression.
- archives — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archness — the quality of being arch, or saucily mischievous
- archways — Plural form of archway.
- archwise — like an arch
- arctiids — Plural form of arctiid.
- arcturus — the brightest star in the constellation Boötes: a red giant. Visual magnitude: –0.4; spectral type: K2III; distance: 37 light years