8-letter words containing n, a, d, s
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
- asconoid — pertaining to or resembling an ascon.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- 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.
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- baldness — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- band saw — a power-operated saw consisting of an endless toothed metal band running over and driven by two wheels
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandanas — Plural form of bandana.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- bandpass — (of a filter) transmitting only a set range of frequencies.
- bandsman — Bandsmen are musicians in a band, especially a military or brass band.
- bandsmen — Plural form of bandsman.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- baseband — a transmission technique using a narrow range of frequencies that allows only one message to be telecommunicated at a time
- basildon — a town in SE England, in S Essex: designated a new town in 1955. Pop: 99 876 (2001)
- baudrons — a cat
- beadings — Plural form of beading.
- beadsman — a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- bedesman — beadsman
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- bedstand — a bedside table
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.