8-letter words containing n, a, r, t
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- artisans — a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- assentor — any of the eight voters legally required to endorse the nomination of a candidate in a parliamentary or local election in addition to the nominator and seconder
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asternal — not connected or joined to the sternum
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- atabrine — quinacrine hydrochloride, C23H30ClN3O·2HCl·2H2O, a synthetic drug used in treating malaria and other diseases
- atherine — any of several small fish of the genus Atherina
- atherton — Mike, full name Michael Andrew Atherton. born 1968, English cricketer: played for Lancashire (1987–2001) and England (1989–2001); captain of England (1993–1998)
- atrament — a liquid substance that is black in colour
- atrazine — a white crystalline compound widely used as a weedkiller. Formula: C8H14N5Cl
- atropine — a poisonous alkaloid obtained from deadly nightshade, having an inhibitory action on the autonomic nervous system. It is used medicinally in pre-anaesthetic medication, to speed a slow heart rate, and as an emergency first-aid counter to exposure to chemical warfare nerve agents. Formula: C17H23NO3
- attainer — a person who attains or achieves something
- attender — The attenders at a particular place or event are the people who go there.
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- averment — the act of averring.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- bancroft — George1800-91; U.S. historian & statesman
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- banister — A banister is a rail supported by posts and fixed along the side of a staircase. The plural banisters can be used to refer to one of these rails.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- bankster — a banker or investor whose financial practices have been exposed as illegal
- banneret — a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- banterer — One who banters.
- baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
- baronets — Plural form of baronet.
- barthian — of or relating to Karl Barth, or his ideas
- bartizan — a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower
- barytone — having the last syllable unaccented
- bat turn — a sharp and sudden change in an aircraft's heading.
- battener — someone who flourishes, grows fat, is strengthened
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bertrand — a masculine name
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- bevatron — a proton synchrotron at the University of California
- binarity — a principle of analysis requiring that a linguistic system, as a phonological, case, or semantic system, be represented as a set of binary oppositions.
- blantyre — a city in S Malawi: includes the former town of Limbe.