8-letter words containing i, n, a, e
- antirape — opposed to or acting against rape
- antirent — noting or pertaining to a political party (1839–47) in New York that opposed the payment of rents to patroons.
- antisera — a serum containing antibodies, as antitoxins or agglutinins, obtained by inoculation of animals and used for injection into other animals to provide immunity to a specific disease.
- antithet — an example of antithesis; an antithetic statement
- 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
- antiwear — preventing deterioration as a result of use
- antiweed — opposed to marijuana use
- antliate — having an antlia
- anuresis — inability to urinate even though urine is formed by the kidneys and retained in the urinary bladder
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- aperient — laxative
- apertion — (archaic) The act of opening.
- aphanite — any fine-grained rock, such as a basalt, containing minerals that cannot be distinguished with the naked eye
- aphelion — the point in its orbit when a planet or comet is at its greatest distance from the sun
- apneusis — protracted gasping inhalation followed by short inefficient exhalation, which can cause asphyxia
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- appendix — Your appendix is a small closed tube inside your body which is attached to your digestive system.
- aquiline — If someone has an aquiline nose or profile, their nose is large, thin, and usually curved.
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arginine — an essential amino acid of plant and animal proteins, necessary for nutrition and for the production of excretory urea
- aridness — The state or quality of being arid.
- armenian — a native or inhabitant of Armenia or an Armenian-speaking person elsewhere
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arretine — of or relating to Arretium (the ancient Latin name of Arezzo, a city in central Italy)
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- arsenite — a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- aryanize — (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan
- ashiness — the condition of being like ash in colour or texture or of containing or being coated with ash
- asnieres — a suburb of Paris, France, on the Seine. Pop: 82 720 (2006)
- asplenia — Absence of normal spleen function.
- assidean — a member of a sect, characterized by its religious zeal and piety, that flourished in the 2nd century b.c. during the time of the Maccabees and vigorously resisted the Hellenization of Jewish culture and religion.
- assiento — a slave trade treaty between other countries and Spain which allowed other countries to supply slaves to Spanish dependencies or colonies
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- assinine — Alternative spelling of asinine.
- astatine — a radioactive element of the halogen series: a decay product of uranium and thorium that occurs naturally in minute amounts and is artificially produced by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. Symbol: At; atomic no: 85; half-life of most stable isotope, 210At: 8.1 hours; probable valency: 1,3,5, or 7; melting pt: 302°C; boiling pt: 337°C (est)
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asthenia — an abnormal loss of strength; debility
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- atabrine — quinacrine hydrochloride, C23H30ClN3O·2HCl·2H2O, a synthetic drug used in treating malaria and other diseases
- atechnic — a person who has no technical or scientific ability or understanding
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties