8-letter words containing s
- alarmist — Someone or something that is alarmist causes unnecessary fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen.
- alastair — a male given name.
- alastrim — a form of smallpox caused by the virus Variola minor
- albanese — Licia [lee-chee-uh;; Italian lee-chah] /ˈli tʃi ə;; Italian ˈli tʃɑ/ (Show IPA), 1913–2014, Italian operatic soprano.
- albiness — a female albino
- albinism — the condition of being an albino
- albumens — Plural form of albumen.
- albumins — Plural form of albumin.
- albumose — any of a class of chemical compounds derived from albumins by the action of certain enzymes, as in digestion
- alcahest — the universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
- alcaides — Plural form of alcaide.
- alcazars — Plural form of alcazar.
- alcestis — the wife of king Admetus of Thessaly. To save his life, she died in his place, but was rescued from Hades by Hercules
- alchevsk — a city in E Ukraine. Pop: 117 000 (2005 est)
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alcohols — Plural form of alcohol.
- alcopops — Plural form of alcopop.
- aldolase — an enzyme present in the body that breaks down fructose into triose sugars
- alehouse — An alehouse is a pub.
- alembics — Plural form of alembic.
- alewives — Plural form of alewife.
- alforjas — Plural form of alforja.
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- algorism — the Arabic or decimal system of counting
- aliasing — the error in a vision or sound signal arising from limitations in the system that generates or processes the signal
- alidades — Plural form of alidade.
- alienees — Plural form of alienee.
- alienism — the study and treatment of mental illness
- alienist — a psychiatrist who specializes in the legal aspects of mental illness
- alienors — Plural form of alienor.
- aliments — that which nourishes; nutriment; food.
- alinasal — (anatomy) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
- aliquots — Plural form of aliquot.
- alistair — a masculine name
- alkahest — the hypothetical universal solvent sought by alchemists
- alkalies — Plural form of alkali.
- alkanets — Plural form of alkanet.
- alkermes — a Mediterranean liqueur made from brandy flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and other spices, and colored red with kermes or cochineal.
- alkestis — Alcestis (def 1).
- all ears — If someone says that they are all ears, they mean that they are ready and eager to listen.
- all eyes — acutely vigilant or observant
- all-pass — Radio. (of a network, transducer, etc.) transmitting signals without significant attenuation of any frequencies.
- all-star — An all-star cast, performance, or game is one which contains only famous or extremely good performers or players.
- alledges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alledge.
- allegros — Plural form of allegro.
- allelism — any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- allheals — Plural form of allheal.
- allision — the striking of one ship by another.
- allosaur — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Antrodemus (formerly Allosaurus), common in North America in late Jurassic times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
- allosome — A sex chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, or behaviour.