8-letter words containing o, n, a
- amongest — Obsolete form of amongst.
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amoungst — Archaic form of amongst.
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amplicon — A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.
- amrinone — a potent substance, C 10 H 9 N 3 O, used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- amylogen — the water-soluble part of the starch granule
- amythaon — the son of Cretheus and Tyro who supported Jason's claim to the throne of Iolcus.
- anabolic — of or relating to anabolism
- anaconda — a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anadrome — A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
- anaerobe — an organism that does not require oxygen for respiration
- anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
- anagogic — of or relating to an anagoge.
- analogia — a lectern.
- analogic — based on, involving, or expressing an analogy.
- analogon — analogue
- analogue — If one thing is an analogue of another, it is similar in some way.
- anamonic — A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a \"stem\" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
- anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
- anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
- anarcho- — Anarcho- combines with nouns and adjectives to form words indicating that something is both anarchistic and the other thing that is mentioned.
- 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.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchoret — anchorite.
- ancohuma — one of the two peaks of Mount Sorata
- anconeal — Of or pertaining to the elbow.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anconoid — resembling the ancon or elbow
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- and how! — very much so!
- anderson — a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- andoroba — carapa.
- andorran — of or relating to Andorra or its inhabitants
- androgen — any of several steroids, produced as hormones by the testes or made synthetically, that promote development of male sexual organs and male secondary sexual characteristics
- androids — Plural form of android.
- andropov — Yuri Vladimirovich. 1914–84, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1983–84)
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- anechoic — having a low degree of reverberation of sound
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anemones — Plural form of anemone.
- anemosis — spacing between the annual rings in wood that is caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- 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