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8-letter words containing a

  • !!!batch — (language, humour)   A daft way of obfuscating text strings by encoding each character as a different number of exclamation marks surrounded by question marks, e.g. "d" is encoded as "?!!!!?". The language is named after the MSDOS batch file in which the first converter was written.
  • 'a' game — one's best possible performance, esp in the phrase to bring or take one's 'A' game
  • -ability — -ability replaces '-able' at the end of adjectives to form nouns. Nouns formed in this way refer to the state or quality described by the adjectives.
  • -androus — (in botany) indicating number or type of stamens
  • -anthous — having flowers (of a specified kind or number)
  • -baiting — You use -baiting after nouns to refer to the activity of attacking a particular group of people or laughing at their beliefs.
  • -bashing — -bashing combines with nouns to form nouns or adjectives that refer to strong, public, and often unfair criticism of the people or group mentioned.
  • -bearing — -bearing combines with nouns to form adjectives which describe things that hold the specified substance inside them.
  • -behaved — -behaved combines with adverbs such as 'well' or 'badly' to form adjectives that describe people's or animals' behaviour.
  • -brained — You can combine -brained with nouns to form adjectives which describe the quality of someone's mind when you consider that person to be rather stupid.
  • -calorie — -calorie is used after adjectives such as low or high to indicate that food contains a small or a large number of calories.
  • -carpous — (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit
  • -cephaly — a (specified) characteristic or condition of the head
  • -crafted — made in the way specified
  • -dactyly — a (specified) condition of the fingers, toes, etc.
  • -enabled — functioning with the specified software
  • -enchyma — denoting cellular tissue
  • -facient — indicating a state or quality
  • -fixated — obsessed by someone or something
  • -flation — inflation
  • -grapher — indicating a person who writes about or is skilled in a subject
  • -graphic — of or relating to a (specified) method or process for recording or describing
  • -hearted — -hearted combines with adjectives such as 'kind' or 'cold' to form adjectives which indicate that someone has a particular character or personality or is in a particular mood.
  • -iatrics — indicating medical care or treatment
  • -isation — -ization
  • -ization — the act, process, or result of making or doing
  • -logical — of or relating to the science, doctrine, or theory of
  • -manship — talent or skill (esp. in gaining advantage) in connection with
  • -natured — having a specified type of personality
  • -phagous — that eats (something specified)
  • -phyceae — seaweed
  • -plastic — growing or forming
  • -ranking — -ranking is used to form adjectives which indicate what rank someone has in an organization.
  • -related — -related combines with nouns to form adjectives with the meaning 'connected with the thing referred to by the noun'.
  • -rrhagia — (in pathology) an abnormal discharge or flow
  • -scarred — -scarred is used after nouns such as 'bullet' and 'fire' to form adjectives which indicate that something has been damaged or marked by the thing mentioned.
  • -spermal — -spermous
  • -stained — stained, covered, or marked with the substance specified
  • -trained — having been trained by a specified person or organization
  • -visaged — having a visage as specified
  • -watcher — -watcher combines with nouns to form other nouns that refer to people who are interested in a group of animals or people, and who study them closely.
  • 100baset — (networking)   Any of several Fast Ethernet 100 MBps CSMA/CD standards for twisted pair cables, including: 100BaseTx (100 Mbps over two-pair Cat5 or better cable), 100BaseT4 (100 Mbps over four-pair Cat3 or better cable), 100BaseT2 (in committee; 100 Mbps over two-pair Cat3 or better cable). All are standards (or planned standards) under IEEE 802.3.
  • 3station — (computer, networking)   The archetypal diskless workstation, developed by Bob Metcalfe at 3Com and first available in 1986/1987. The 3Station/2E had a 10 MHz 80286 processor, 1 MB of RAM (expandable to 5 MB), VGA compatible graphics with 256 KB of video RAM, and integrated AUI/BNC network transceivers for LAN access. The product used a single printed-circuit board with four custom ASICs. It had no floppy disk drive or hard disk, it was booted from a server and stored all end-user files there. 3Com advertised "significant cost savings" due to the 3Station's ease of installation and low maintenance (this would now be referred to under the banner of "TCO"). The 3Station cost somewhere between an IBM PC clone and an IBM PC of the day. It was not commercially successful.
  • a bit of — rather
  • a cheval — (of a bet, esp in roulette) made on two adjacent numbers, cards, etc
  • a droite — to the right.
  • a gauche — on or to the left-hand side.
  • a into g — arse into gear (esp in the phrase get your A into G)
  • a little — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • a priori — An a priori argument, reason, or probability is based on an assumed principle or fact, rather than on actual observed facts.

On this page, we collect all 8-letter words with letter A. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 8-letter word that contains in A to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles

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