8-letter words containing o, n, a
- actioner — a film with a fast-moving plot, usually containing scenes of violence
- acupoint — any of the specific points on the body where a needle is inserted in acupuncture or pressure is applied in acupressure
- adaption — Adaption means the same as adaptation.
- addition — An addition to something is a thing which is added to it.
- adenoids — Adenoids are soft lumps of flesh at the back and top of a person's throat that sometimes become swollen and have to be removed.
- adenomas — Plural form of adenoma.
- adenosis — a minor glandular condition typified by swelling of the lymph glands
- adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
- adjoined — to be close to or in contact with; abut on: His property adjoins the lake.
- adjoints — Plural form of adjoint.
- adjourns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjourn.
- admonish — If you admonish someone, you tell them very seriously that they have done something wrong.
- adnation — the adhesion or cohesion of different plants
- adonijah — a son of David, put to death at the order of Solomon. II Sam. 3:4; I Kings 2:19–25.
- adonises — Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
- adopting — Present participle of adopt.
- adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
- adorning — Make more beautiful or attractive.
- adperson — a copywriter, account executive, or other person employed in advertising.
- advowson — the right of presentation to a vacant benefice
- adynaton — (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility.
- aequorin — a protein obtained from marine organisms that emits blue light in the presence of calcium ions and is used to detect these ions in living tissue
- aeration — Aeration is the application of upward-flowing air to a layer of particles.
- aerodyne — any heavier-than-air machine, such as an aircraft, that derives the greater part of its lift from aerodynamic forces
- aeronaut — a person who flies in a lighter-than-air craft, esp the pilot or navigator
- aeronomy — the science of the earth's upper atmosphere
- aerotone — a bath which incorporates massaging air jets
- aesopian — of Aesop or characteristic of his fables
- affronté — facing
- affronts — Plural form of affront.
- affusion — the baptizing of a person by pouring water onto his head
- afikoman — Alternative spelling of afikomen.
- afikomen — a piece of matzo broken off from the center one of the three matzoth set before the leader of a Seder: it is hidden by the leader and later searched for by the children, with the finder, usually the youngest, receiving a reward.
- aglycone — a chemical compound
- agnation — Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
- agnition — (obsolete) acknowledgement.
- agnomina — Plural form of agnomen.
- agnostic — An agnostic believes that it is not possible to know whether God exists or not. Compare atheist.
- agonised — Simple past tense and past participle of agonise.
- agonists — Plural form of agonist.
- agonized — Agonized describes something that you say or do when you are in great physical or mental pain.
- agonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agonize.
- agostini — Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo). born 1942, Italian racing motorcyclist: world champion (500 cc. class) 1966–72, 1975; (350 cc. class) 1968–74
- agraphon — saying of Jesus not in Gospels
- agrimony — any of various N temperate rosaceous plants of the genus Agrimonia, which have compound leaves, long spikes of small yellow flowers, and bristly burlike fruits
- agrinion — a city in W Greece.
- agronomy — the science of cultivation of land, soil management, and crop production
- aidoneus — a king of Thesprotia.
- ailerons — Plural form of aileron.
- air horn — a horn activated by compressed air.