8-letter words containing s, a
- assassin — An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
- assaults — Plural form of assault.
- assayers — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- asscheek — (vulgar slang) A buttock.
- assegais — Plural form of assegai.
- assemble — When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting.
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- assenter — a person who agrees or complies
- 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
- asserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- asserter — One who makes an assertion.
- assertor — One who asserts or avers.
- assessed — Simple past tense and past participle of assess.
- assessee — Something or someone that is assessed.
- assesses — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
- assessor — An assessor is a person who is employed to calculate the value of something, or the amount of money that should be paid, for example in tax.
- assholes — Plural form of asshole.
- assidean — a member of a sect, characterized by its religious zeal and piety, that flourished in the 2nd century b.c. during the time of the Maccabees and vigorously resisted the Hellenization of Jewish culture and religion.
- assiento — a slave trade treaty between other countries and Spain which allowed other countries to supply slaves to Spanish dependencies or colonies
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- assigner — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- assignor — a person who transfers or assigns property
- assinine — Alternative spelling of asinine.
- assisted — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assister — One who assists; an assistant or helper.
- assistor — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assoiled — Simple past tense and past participle of assoil.
- 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.
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assuager — Someone who or something which assuages.
- assuages — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- assuerus — Ahasuerus.
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assurers — Plural form of assurer.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- assyrian — an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- astatide — a binary compound of astatine with a more electropositive element
- astatine — a radioactive element of the halogen series: a decay product of uranium and thorium that occurs naturally in minute amounts and is artificially produced by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. Symbol: At; atomic no: 85; half-life of most stable isotope, 210At: 8.1 hours; probable valency: 1,3,5, or 7; melting pt: 302°C; boiling pt: 337°C (est)
- asterion — (anatomy) The point on the side of the skull corresponding to the posterior end of the parietomastoid suture.
- asterisk — An asterisk is the sign *. It is used especially to indicate that there is further information about something in another part of the text.
- asterism — three asterisks arranged in a triangle (⁂ or ), to draw attention to the text that follows
- asternal — not connected or joined to the sternum