8-letter words containing s
- abstrict — to make (a spore) undergo abstriction
- abstrude — (transitive) To thrust away.
- abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- absurder — Comparative form of absurd.
- absurdly — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
- absurdum — An illogical conclusion or state. (First attested in the mid 19th century.).
- abusable — able to be abused
- abuseful — (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
- abuttals — the boundaries of a plot of land where it abuts against other property
- abutters — Plural form of abutter.
- academes — the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
- academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
- acanthus — any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers: family Acanthaceae
- acarbose — a type of diabetes medicine taken orally to slow and reduce the supply of glucose to the blood.
- acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
- accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accesses — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accessor — Someone or something that accesses.
- accismus — (rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
- acclaims — Plural form of acclaim.
- accosted — (of animals) represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted.
- accounts — a chronological list of debits and credits relating to a specified asset, liability, expense, or income of a business and forming part of the ledger
- accresce — (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
- accretes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete.
- accruals — Plural form of accrual.
- accursed — Some people use accursed to describe something which they are very annoyed about.
- accusant — a person who accuses or blames
- accuseds — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- accusers — Plural form of accuser.
- accusing — If you look at someone with an accusing expression or speak to them in an accusing tone of voice, you are showing that you think they have done something wrong.
- accusive — Accusative.
- accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
- acescent — slightly sour or turning sour
- acetates — Plural form of acetate.
- acharyas — Plural form of acharya.
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achenese — Atjehnese.
- achieves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of achieve.
- achilles — Greek hero, the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis: in the Iliad the foremost of the Greek warriors at the siege of Troy. While he was a baby his mother plunged him into the river Styx making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. After slaying Hector, he was killed by Paris who wounded him in the heel
- achimaas — Ahimaaz.
- achinese — Atjehnese.
- achiness — a constant, dull pain
- achroous — Colorless; achromatic.
- acidness — Acidity, sourness.
- acidosis — a condition characterized by an abnormal increase in the acidity of the blood and extracellular fluids
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- acolytes — Plural form of acolyte.
- aconites — Plural form of aconite.
- acosmism — a belief that no world distinct from God exists
- acosmist — someone who believes that no world distinct from God exists