8-letter words containing s, i
- ambients — Plural form of ambient.
- ambrosia — In Greek mythology, ambrosia is the food of the gods.
- ameiosis — the absence of pairing of chromosomes during meiosis
- americas — People sometimes refer to North America, Central America, and South America collectively as the Americas.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amidmost — in the middle or centre
- amidship — in or toward the middle part of a ship or aircraft; midway between the ends.
- amirates — Plural form of amirate.
- amissing — missing
- amission — (obsolete) deprivation; loss.
- amitosis — an unusual form of cell division in which the nucleus and cytoplasm divide by constriction without the formation of chromosomes; direct cell division
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.
- amnesiac — Someone who is amnesiac has lost their memory.
- amnesias — Plural form of amnesia.
- amnestic — causing amnesia
- amniotes — Plural form of amniote.
- amorists — Plural form of amorist.
- amortise — amortize
- amourist — Alternative form of amorist.
- amritsar — a city in India, in NW Punjab: centre of the Sikh religion; site of a massacre in 1919 of unarmed supporters of Indian self-government by British troops; in 1984 the Golden Temple, fortified by Sikhs, was attacked by Indian troops with the loss of many Sikh lives. Pop: 975 695 (2001)
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- anacusis — total deafness.
- analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
- analyzis — Nonstandard spelling of analysis.
- anapolis — a city in central Brazil.
- anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
- anchises — a Trojan prince and father of Aeneas. In the Aeneid, he is rescued by his son at the fall of Troy and dies in Sicily
- anchusin — alkanet (sense 1) alkanet (sense 1c)
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- andesine — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase series consisting of an aluminium silicate of sodium and calcium. Formula: NaAlSi3O8.CaAl2Si2O8
- andesite — a fine-grained tan or grey volcanic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, esp andesine, amphibole, and pyroxene
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- androids — Plural form of android.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anemosis — spacing between the annual rings in wood that is caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- aneurism — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- anfinsen — Christian Boehmer. 1916–95, US biochemist, noted for his research on the structure of enzymes. Nobel prize for chemistry 1972
- angiitis — A condition where blood or lymph vessels are inflamed.
- anginose — (dated) Relating to angina; anginous.
- anginous — of, noting, or pertaining to angina, especially angina pectoris.
- angiomas — Plural form of angioma.
- anglaise — an old English country-dance.
- angriest — feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
- anhingas — Plural form of anhinga.
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- animates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animate.
- animists — Plural form of animist.
- anisette — a liquorice-flavoured liqueur made from aniseed
- annalise — record in annals