8-letter words containing s, e, n
- arsenate — a salt or ester of arsenic acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O43–
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- arsenite — a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
- arsenous — of or containing trivalent arsenic
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ashiness — the condition of being like ash in colour or texture or of containing or being coated with ash
- ashkelon — Ashqelon
- ashkenaz — a son of Gomer and grandson of Japheth. Gen 10:1–3; I Chron. 1:6.
- ashqelon — city in SW Israel, on the Mediterranean: nearby is the site of an ancient city-state (often sp. Ashkelon) of the Philistines, 12th cent. b.c. (cf. I Sam. 6:17; Jer. 25:20): pop. 57,000
- asmonean — Hasmonean.
- asnieres — a suburb of Paris, France, on the Seine. Pop: 82 720 (2006)
- asplenia — Absence of normal spleen function.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- assinine — Alternative spelling of asinine.
- assonate — to display assonance or match in sound
- 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.
- asternal — not connected or joined to the sternum
- asthenia — an abnormal loss of strength; debility
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- asynergy — defective coordination between parts, as muscles or limbs, that normally act in unison.
- atlantes — supporting columns for an entablature, carved in the form of standing or kneeling figures of men
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.
- balances — Plural form of balance.
- baldness — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- balinese — of or relating to Bali, its people, or their language