8-letter words containing i, a, n
- adorning — Make more beautiful or attractive.
- adrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.
- adrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- adrienne — a feminine name
- aduncity — the quality of being hooked or curved inward
- advising — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- adynamia — loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
- adynamic — Not dynamic; without strength or vigor.
- aequorin — a protein obtained from marine organisms that emits blue light in the presence of calcium ions and is used to detect these ions in living tissue
- aerarian — of or relating to the aerarium.
- aerating — Present participle of aerate.
- aeration — Aeration is the application of upward-flowing air to a layer of particles.
- aesculin — a chemical found in the bark of horse-chestnut trees
- aesopian — of Aesop or characteristic of his fables
- affiance — to bind (a person or oneself) in a promise of marriage; betroth
- affinely — In an affine manner.
- affining — Present participle of affine.
- affinity — If you have an affinity with someone or something, you feel that you are similar to them or that you know and understand them very well.
- affixing — to fasten, join, or attach (usually followed by to): to affix stamps to a letter.
- affusion — the baptizing of a person by pouring water onto his head
- afghanis — Plural form of afghani.
- afikoman — Alternative spelling of afikomen.
- afikomen — a piece of matzo broken off from the center one of the three matzoth set before the leader of a Seder: it is hidden by the leader and later searched for by the children, with the finder, usually the youngest, receiving a reward.
- afrasian — of Afrasia.
- africana — objects of cultural or historical interest of African origin
- agaricin — an impure form of agaric acid: formerly used in medicine as an agent for stopping excessive perspiration.
- agencies — Plural form of agency.
- agenesia — absence of or failed development of a body part.
- agenesis — (of an animal or plant) imperfect development
- agenetic — absence of or failed development of a body part.
- agenized — to bleach (flour) with nitrogen trichloride.
- agential — pertaining to an agent or agency.
- agentive — (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
- aglisten — refulgent; glistening.
- agminate — gathered or clustered together
- agnation — Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
- agnition — (obsolete) acknowledgement.
- agnizing — Present participle of agnize.
- agnomina — Plural form of agnomen.
- agnostic — An agnostic believes that it is not possible to know whether God exists or not. Compare atheist.
- agonised — Simple past tense and past participle of agonise.
- agonists — Plural form of agonist.
- agonized — Agonized describes something that you say or do when you are in great physical or mental pain.
- agonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agonize.
- agostini — Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). born 1942, Italian racing motorcyclist: world champion (500 cc. class) 1966–72, 1975; (350 cc. class) 1968–74
- agrarian — Agrarian means relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland, or relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.
- agreeing — to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed by with): I don't agree with you.
- agrimony — any of various N temperate rosaceous plants of the genus Agrimonia, which have compound leaves, long spikes of small yellow flowers, and bristly burlike fruits
- agrinion — a city in W Greece.
- agrypnia — the inability to sleep