8-letter words containing n, a, s
- alpinism — mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
- alpinist — a mountaineer who climbs in medium-sized glaciated mountain areas such as the Alps
- alsatian — An Alsatian is a large, usually fierce dog that is often used to guard buildings or by the police to help them find criminals.
- also-ran — If you describe someone as an also-ran, you mean that they have been or are likely to be unsuccessful in a contest.
- althorns — Plural form of althorn.
- alumni's — a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
- amassing — to gather for oneself; collect as one's own: to amass a huge amount of money.
- amazonas — a state of W Brazil, consisting of the central Amazon basin: vast areas of unexplored tropical rainforest. Capital: Manaus. Pop: 2 961 801 (2002). Area: 1 542 277 sq km (595 474 sq miles)
- amazonis — an area on the equator of Mars.
- ambients — Plural form of ambient.
- ambonese — a native or inhabitant of Ambon.
- amissing — missing
- amission — (obsolete) deprivation; loss.
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.
- 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.
- amoungst — Archaic form of amongst.
- amundsen — Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- anableps — any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
- anagrams — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- analepsy — (medicine) analepsis.
- analysed — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyser — An analyser is a piece of equipment which is used to analyse the substances that are present in something such as a gas.
- analyses — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
- analysts — Plural form of analyst.
- analytes — Plural form of analyte.
- analyzes — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- analyzis — Nonstandard spelling of analysis.
- anapaest — a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long (◡ ◡ –)
- anapests — Plural form of anapest.
- anaphase — the third stage of mitosis, during which the chromatids separate and migrate towards opposite ends of the spindle
- anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
- anasarca — a generalized accumulation of serous fluid within the subcutaneous connective tissue, resulting in oedema
- anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.