8-letter words containing s, t
- amortise — amortize
- amoungst — Archaic form of amongst.
- amourist — Alternative form of amorist.
- amputees — Plural form of amputee.
- 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)
- amusette — a type of light field cannon
- analects — selected literary passages from one or more works
- analysts — Plural form of analyst.
- analytes — Plural form of analyte.
- anapaest — a metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long (◡ ◡ –)
- anapests — Plural form of anapest.
- anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
- ancaster — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ancestor — Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
- ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
- ancients — Plural form of ancient.
- anctious — Obsolete form of anxious.
- andesite — a fine-grained tan or grey volcanic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, esp andesine, amphibole, and pyroxene
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- angiitis — A condition where blood or lymph vessels are inflamed.
- 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.
- angstful — Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive.
- angstrom — a unit of length equal to 10–10 metre, used principally to express the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiations. It is equivalent to 0.1 nanometre
- 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
- annalist — a writer of annals
- annattos — Plural form of annatto.
- anniston — a city in E Alabama.
- annulets — Plural form of annulet.
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- antabuse — a drug, a brand of disulfiram, used in the treatment of alcoholism, that acts by inducing nausea and other unpleasant symptoms following ingestion of alcohol; tetraethylthiuram disulphide
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antbears — Plural form of antbear.
- antbirds — Plural form of antbird.
- antennas — a conductor by which electromagnetic waves are sent out or received, consisting commonly of a wire or set of wires; aerial.
- antepast — an appetizer
- anthemis — a genus of aromatic herbs of the family Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum and native to the Mediterranean region and SW Asia
- antheses — Plural form of anthesis.
- anthesis — the time when a flower becomes sexually functional
- anthills — Plural form of anthill.
- antibias — countering bias
- antiboss — acting against a boss or bosses
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- antigens — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antilles — main island group of the West Indies, including all but the Bahamas
- antimask — interlude in a masque
- antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
- antiphus — (in the Iliad) a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph.