8-letter words containing a, s, r
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- 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.
- amfortas — (in medieval legend) the leader of the knights of the Holy Grail
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- ammeters — Plural form of ammeter.
- amorists — Plural form of amorist.
- amortise — amortize
- amourist — Alternative form of amorist.
- amourous — Alternative form of amorous.
- amritsar — a city in India, in NW Punjab: centre of the Sikh religion; site of a massacre in 1919 of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British troops; in 1984 the Golden Temple, fortified by Sikhs, was attacked by Indian troops with the loss of many Sikh lives. Pop: 975 695 (2001)
- anagrams — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- 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.
- andersen — Hans Christian. 1805–75, Danish author of fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen
- anderson — a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- andrassy — Count Gyula (ˈdjulɔ). 1823–90, Hungarian statesman; the first prime minister of Hungary under the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867)
- andrewes — Lancelot. 1555–1626, English bishop and theologian
- androids — Plural form of android.
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- aneurism — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- aneurysm — a sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel
- angriest — feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
- angstrom — a unit of length equal to 10–10 metre, used principally to express the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiations. It is equivalent to 0.1 nanometre
- anourous — anurous.
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- answered — Simple past tense and past participle of answer.
- answerer — someone who answers
- antbears — Plural form of antbear.
- antbirds — Plural form of antbird.
- antirust — (of a product or procedure) effective against rust
- antisera — a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- antrorse — directed or pointing upwards or forwards
- anuresis — inability to urinate even though urine is formed by the kidneys and retained in the urinary bladder
- aoristic — Grammar. pertaining to the aorist.
- aortitis — inflammation of the aorta
- apaporis — a river in S central Colombia, in the Amazon system, flowing SE to the Japurá River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- apastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are farthest apart (opposed to periastron).
- aphorise — To create an aphorism.
- aphorism — An aphorism is a short witty sentence which expresses a general truth or comment.
- aphorist — a person who makes or uses aphorisms.
- apiaries — Plural form of apiary.
- apiarist — a person who studies or keeps bees
- apikoros — A Jewish skeptic or apostate.