8-letter words containing e, a
- aventine — one of the seven hills on which Rome was built
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- averager — person who calculates average claims
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- averment — the act of averring.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- avianize — to modify microorganisms by repeated culturing in chicken embryos
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoucher — a person who avouches
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- avowable — Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- awakened — Rouse from sleep; cause to stop sleeping.
- awakener — a person or thing that awakens
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- aweather — towards the weather
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- axilemma — the membrane surrounding the axon of a nerve fiber.
- axle cap — a cap that covers the end of an axle
- axle-box — the journal box of a rotating axle
- axle-pin — a pin that holds an axle in place
- axletree — a bar fixed across the underpart of a wagon or carriage that has rounded ends on which the wheels revolve
- axolemma — the membrane that encloses the axon of a nerve cell
- axonemal — of or relating to the axoneme
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- aycliffe — a town in Co Durham: founded as a new town in 1947. Pop (including Newton Aycliffe): 25 655 (2001)
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- azoimide — hydrazoic acid.