8-letter words containing e, s
- alledges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alledge.
- allegros — Plural form of allegro.
- allelism — any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- allheals — Plural form of allheal.
- allosome — A sex chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, or behaviour.
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- almagest — a work on astronomy compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century ad containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue
- almemars — bimah.
- alphonse — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “noble” and “ready.”.
- alterers — Plural form of alterer.
- altrices — altricial birds
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- alyattes — king of Lydia c617–560 b.c.
- amadises — a knight-errant, model of the chivalric hero.
- amateurs — Plural form of amateur.
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambients — Plural form of ambient.
- ambler's — an ambling gait.
- ambonese — a native or inhabitant of Ambon.
- ambushed — Simple past tense and past participle of ambush.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- ambushes — Plural form of ambush.
- ameiosis — the absence of pairing of chromosomes during meiosis
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amesbury — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- amethyst — Amethysts are clear purple stones, sometimes used to make jewellery.
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- ammeters — Plural form of ammeter.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnesias — Plural form of amnesia.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amongest — Obsolete form of amongst.
- amortise — amortize
- amplexus — the mating embrace of amphibians, particularly frogs and toads
- ampoules — Plural form of ampoule.
- amputees — Plural form of amputee.
- amundsen — Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
- amusable — capable of being amused
- amusedly — in a way that shows one is amused
- amusette — a type of light field cannon
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- amylases — Plural form of amylase.
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anableps — any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes
- anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- analepsy — (medicine) analepsis.