8-letter words containing o, a, t
- areolate — a ring of color, as around the human nipple.
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- armorist — a heraldry expert
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- aromatic — An aromatic plant or food has a strong, pleasant smell of herbs or spices.
- arrestor — Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- arsonist — An arsonist is a person who deliberately sets fire to a building or vehicle.
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- art form — If you describe an activity as an art form, you mean that it is concerned with creating objects, works, or performances that are beautiful or have a serious meaning.
- art rock — a type of rock music, often with poetic lyrics, characterized by sophisticated harmonic, dynamic, and technical complexity based on forms derived from classical music and requiring performers of considerable training and skill.
- art song — a song written by a trained composer to convey a specific artistic idea, as in projecting the mood and meaning of a poetic text
- arterio- — artery or arteries
- arthouse — a cinema which specializes in showing films which are not part of the commercial mainstream
- artotype — collotype.
- artworks — Printing. the elements that constitute a mechanical, as type, proofs, and illustrations. a mechanical; paste-up.
- asarotum — (in ancient Roman architecture) a painted pavement.
- asbestos — Asbestos is a grey material which does not burn and which has been used as a protection against fire or heat.
- ascomata — a fruiting body that bears asci.
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- 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
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assiento — a slave trade treaty between other countries and Spain which allowed other countries to supply slaves to Spanish dependencies or colonies
- assistor — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assoluta — absolute; supreme: a prima ballerina assoluta.
- assonant — resemblance of sounds.
- assonate — to display assonance or match in sound
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assorter — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astonish — If something or someone astonishes you, they surprise you very much.
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- astroids — Plural form of astroid.
- asystole — the absence of heartbeat; cardiac arrest
- at about — time: at approximately
- at worst — under the worst circumstances; at the greatest disadvantage
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- atenolol — a type of beta-blocker that is taken by mouth and is used to treat angina and high blood pressure
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- atheroma — a fatty deposit on or within the inner lining of an artery, often causing an obstruction to the blood flow
- 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)
- athetoid — (symptom) characterised by athetosis.
- athodyds — Plural form of athodyd.
- athonite — of or relating to Mount Athos.
- atkinson — Sir Harry Albert. 1831–92, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister of New Zealand (1876–77; 1883–84; 1887–91)