8-letter words containing a, y, t
- antiarmy — Opposing an army or armies.
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- anticity — opposed to cities
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimony — a toxic metallic element that exists in two allotropic forms and occurs principally in stibnite. The stable form is a brittle silvery-white crystalline metal that is added to alloys to increase their strength and hardness and is used in semiconductors. Symbol: Sb; atomic no: 51; atomic wt: 121.757; valency: 0, –3, +3, or +5; relative density: 6.691; melting pt: 630.76°C; boiling pt: 1587°C
- antinomy — opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
- antipyic — acting against or preventing suppuration
- antiquey — having the appearance of an antique
- antisway — Designed to stabilize the left and right suspension systems of a road vehicle so as reduce roll or sway when turning corners.
- antitype — a person or thing that is foreshadowed or represented by a type or symbol, esp a character or event in the New Testament prefigured in the Old Testament
- antonyms — a word opposite in meaning to another. Fast is an antonym of slow. Compare synonym (def 1).
- antonymy — the semantic relationship between words that have opposite meanings
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- anythink — (UK) eye dialect of anything.
- apostacy — Abandonment of religion.
- apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- apricity — (obsolete) The warmth of the Sun.
- apsyrtus — a son of Aeëtes, killed by his sister Medea, who, while fleeing with Jason, threw pieces of her brother's body into the sea so that her father, in pursuing her, might be delayed while picking them up.
- apyretic — without fever
- ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
- argutely — in an argute manner
- army ant — any of various mainly tropical American predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animals
- arrantly — downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious: an arrant fool.
- artfully — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- artistry — Artistry is the creative skill of an artist, writer, actor, or musician.
- artotype — collotype.
- arythmia — Alternative spelling of arrhythmia.
- arythmic — relating to arythmia
- ashtrays — Plural form of ashtray.
- asperity — If you say something with asperity, you say it impatiently and severely.
- astrally — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- astutely — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- athanasy — an absence of death or the condition of everlasting life
- athodyds — Plural form of athodyd.
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atonally — In an atonal manner; without tone.
- atrocity — An atrocity is a very cruel, shocking action.
- attaboys — Plural form of attaboy.
- attently — attentive; intent.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- atty gen — Attorney General
- atypical — Someone or something that is atypical is not typical of its kind.
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- auditory — Auditory means related to hearing.