8-letter words containing u, a, e
- alleluia — Alleluia means the same as hallelujah.
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- alouette — French. a lark.
- altitude — If something is at a particular altitude, it is at that height above sea level.
- alunogen — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of aluminum, Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ⋅18H 2 O, occurring as a white, fibrous crust on quarry or mine walls.
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- amateurs — Plural form of amateur.
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambulate — to wander about or move from one place to another
- ambushed — Simple past tense and past participle of ambush.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- ambushes — Plural form of ambush.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amesbury — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amplexus — the mating embrace of amphibians, particularly frogs and toads
- ampoules — Plural form of ampoule.
- ampullae — Anatomy. a dilated portion of a canal or duct, especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
- amputate — To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
- amputees — Plural form of amputee.
- amuletic — having the qualities of a charm
- amundsen — Roald (ˈrɔald). 1872–1928, Norwegian explorer and navigator, who was the first man to reach the South Pole (1911)
- amusable — capable of being amused
- amusedly — in a way that shows one is amused
- amusette — a type of light field cannon
- amyelous — congenital absence of the spinal cord.
- amygdule — a small gas pocket, usually found in volcanic rock, partly or completely filled with a mineral, esp. a zeolite, calcite, or quartz
- analogue — If one thing is an analogue of another, it is similar in some way.
- anconeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.
- anemious — (of a plant) Growing in exposed windy places.
- anestrus — in the breeding cycle of many mammals, the period of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus
- aneurine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- aneurism — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- aneurysm — a sac formed by abnormal dilation of the weakened wall of a blood vessel
- angerful — Full of anger, expressing anger.
- angledug — an earthworm
- anguiped — having snakes for feet or legs
- angulate — having angles or an angular shape
- angulose — having angles
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- annulate — having, composed of, or marked with rings
- annulets — Plural form of annulet.
- annulled — (especially of laws or other established rules, usages, etc.) to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate: to annul a marriage.
- annulose — (of earthworms, crustaceans, and similar animals) having a body formed of a series of rings; segmented
- anquetil — Jacques [zhak] /ʒak/ (Show IPA), 1934–87, French cyclist with five victories (1957, 1961–64) in the Tour de France.
- 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
- antidune — a sand hill or inclined bedding plane that forms a steep slope against the direction of a fast-flowing current
- antinuke — opposed to nuclear weapons or energy