8-letter words containing s, a
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- aviarist — a person who keeps an aviary
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- avulsion — a forcible tearing away or separation of a bodily structure or part, either as the result of injury or as an intentional surgical procedure
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- axolotls — Plural form of axolotl.
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- axoplasm — the fluid substance found in the axon of a neuron which surrounds the fibrils
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- azimuths — Plural form of azimuth.
- azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- baalebos — the master of the house
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- baathism — a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
- babassus — Plural form of babassu.
- babbitts — Plural form of babbitt.
- babblers — Plural form of babbler.
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- babirusa — a wild pig, Babyrousa babyrussa, inhabiting marshy forests in Indonesia. It has an almost hairless wrinkled skin and enormous curved canine teeth
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- babushka — a headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
- baby-sit — to act or work as a baby-sitter
- babykins — Fond term of address for a baby, child, or lover.
- babysits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babysit.
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- back saw — a short saw with a reinforced back.
- backcast — a backward casting of a fishing rod
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backfist — a karate punch with the back of a clenched hand.
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.