8-letter words containing a, s, e
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambients — Plural form of ambient.
- ambler's — an ambling gait.
- ambonese — a native or inhabitant of Ambon.
- ambushed — Simple past tense and past participle of ambush.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- ambushes — Plural form of ambush.
- ameiosis — the absence of pairing of chromosomes during meiosis
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amesbury — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- amethyst — Amethysts are clear purple stones, sometimes used to make jewellery.
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- ammeters — Plural form of ammeter.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnesias — Plural form of amnesia.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amongest — Obsolete form of amongst.
- amortise — amortize
- amplexus — the mating embrace of amphibians, particularly frogs and toads
- ampoules — Plural form of ampoule.
- amputees — Plural form of amputee.
- amundsen — Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
- amusable — capable of being amused
- amusedly — in a way that shows one is amused
- amusette — a type of light field cannon
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- amylases — Plural form of amylase.
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anableps — any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes
- anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- analepsy — (medicine) analepsis.
- analysed — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyses — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analytes — Plural form of analyte.
- analyzes — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- anapaest — a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long (◡ ◡ –)
- anapests — Plural form of anapest.
- anaphase — the third stage of mitosis, during which the chromatids separate and migrate towards opposite ends of the spindle
- anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
- 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
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- andersen — Hans Christian. 1805–75, Danish author of fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen