8-letter words containing a, t, o, n
- couchant — in a lying position
- countian — a resident of a specific county
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- cratonic — Of or pertaining to the craton.
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- croatian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Croatia, its people, or their language
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cymation — cymatium.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- debation — Debating.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- denotate — to denote (something)
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dilation — the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- dominant — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
- dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
- domitian — (Titus Flavius Domitianus Augustus) a.d. 51–96, Roman emperor 81–96.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donatory — a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- dotation — an endowment.
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- duathlon — An athletic contest consisting of running and cycling.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- duo-tang — a type of folder with flexible metal fasteners
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.