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8-letter words containing a, s

  • anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
  • anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
  • anableps — any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes
  • anacusis — total deafness.
  • anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
  • anagrams — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
  • 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.
  • analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
  • analysts — Plural form of analyst.
  • 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.
  • analyzis — Nonstandard spelling of analysis.
  • 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
  • anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
  • anasarca — a generalized accumulation of serous fluid within the subcutaneous connective tissue, resulting in oedema
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • andesine — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase series consisting of an aluminium silicate of sodium and calcium. Formula: NaAlSi3O8.CaAl2Si2O8
  • andesite — a fine-grained tan or grey volcanic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, esp andesine, amphibole, and pyroxene
  • 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.
  • anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
  • anemones — Plural form of anemone.
  • anemosis — spacing between the annual rings in wood that is caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
  • 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
  • anfinsen — Christian Boehmer. 1916–95, US biochemist, noted for his research on the structure of enzymes. Nobel prize for chemistry 1972
  • angiitis — A condition where blood or lymph vessels are inflamed.
  • anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
  • anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
  • angiomas — Plural form of angioma.
  • anglaise — an old English country-dance.
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