8-letter words containing t, a, n, i, s
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- cabinets — Plural form of cabinet.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canities — greyness or whiteness of hair
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- canstick — a candlestick
- cantinas — Plural form of cantina.
- cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
- cantrips — Plural form of cantrip.
- captains — Plural form of captain.
- captions — Plural form of caption.
- carnitas — A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- chasting — Present participle of chast.
- chiantis — Plural form of chianti.
- chitosan — a polysaccharide produced from chitin
- cineaste — an enthusiast for films
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- coatings — Plural form of coating.
- contains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contain.
- cumstain — Lb vulgar A stain from ejaculate.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- dianthus — any Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant of the widely cultivated genus Dianthus, such as the carnation, pink, and sweet william
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- discants — Plural form of discant.
- displant — to dislodge.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- eastings — Plural form of easting.
- eastlins — in an eastward direction
- eastmain — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing W to James Bay. 510 miles (821 km) long.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- enations — Plural form of enation.