8-letter words containing o, n, a, t
- amatoxin — Any of a class of toxic peptides produced by several mushrooms of the genus Amanita and others.
- ambition — If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
- ammonate — ammoniate (def 2).
- ammonite — any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Ammonoidea, which were common in Mesozoic times and generally had a coiled partitioned shell. Their closest modern relative is the pearly nautilus
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amniotic — of or relating to the amnion
- amongest — Obsolete form of amongst.
- amoungst — Archaic form of amongst.
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amythaon — the son of Cretheus and Tyro who supported Jason's claim to the throne of Iolcus.
- anatolia — the Asian part of Turkey, occupying the peninsula between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Aegean: consists of a plateau, largely mountainous, with salt lakes in the interior
- anatomic — of or relating to anatomy
- anatoxin — a bacterial toxin that has been weakened for use in inoculations
- anatropy — (of a plant ovule) the condition of being inverted during development by a bending of the stalk causing the nucleus to point toward the base
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- anethole — a white water-soluble crystalline substance with a liquorice-like odour, used as a flavouring and a sensitizer in the processing of colour photographs. Formula: CH3CH:CHC6H4OCH3
- angleton — a town in S Texas.
- angstrom — a unit of length equal to 10–10 metre, used principally to express the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiations. It is equivalent to 0.1 nanometre
- animator — An animator is a person who makes films by means of animation.
- annattos — Plural form of annatto.
- anniston — a city in E Alabama.
- annotate — If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it.
- annoybot — (computing, slang) A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.
- anointed — chosen officially to do an important job
- anointer — One who anoints.
- ant lion — any of a family (Myrmeleontidae) of neuropteran insects, some of which have large-jawed larvae (doodlebugs) that lie hidden in cone-shaped pits where they feed on ants and other insects that fall in
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antelope — An antelope is an animal like a deer, with long legs and horns, that lives in Africa or Asia. Antelopes are graceful and can run fast. There are many different types of antelope.
- anterior — Anterior describes a part of the body that is situated at or towards the front of another part.
- anteroom — An anteroom is a small room leading into a larger room.
- anthodia — a flower head or capitulum, especially the head of a composite plant.
- anthrop. — anthropological
- antiatom — an atom of antimatter.
- antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
- antiboss — acting against a boss or bosses
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
- antifood — Opposing food.
- antifoul — (rare) Antifouling.
- antigone — daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who was condemned to death for cremating the body of her brother Polynices in defiance of an edict of her uncle, King Creon of Thebes
- antihero — An antihero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antilogy — a contradiction in terms
- antimony — a toxic metallic element that exists in two allotropic forms and occurs principally in stibnite. The stable form is a brittle silvery-white crystalline metal that is added to alloys to increase their strength and hardness and is used in semiconductors. Symbol: Sb; atomic no: 51; atomic wt: 121.757; valency: 0, –3, +3, or +5; relative density: 6.691; melting pt: 630.76°C; boiling pt: 1587°C