8-letter words containing an
- artesian — noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- artisans — a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- aryanize — (in Nazi ideology) to purge (politics and society) of all non-Aryan elements or people; make characteristically Aryan
- as a man — in unison; unanimously
- ascanius — the son of Aeneas and Creusa; founder of Alba Longa, mother city of Rome
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
- ashplant — a walking stick made from an ash sapling
- asmonean — Hasmonean.
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- assidean — a member of a sect, characterized by its religious zeal and piety, that flourished in the 2nd century b.c. during the time of the Maccabees and vigorously resisted the Hellenization of Jewish culture and religion.
- assonant — resemblance of sounds.
- assyrian — an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- atalanta — a maiden who agreed to marry any man who could defeat her in a running race. She lost to Hippomenes when she paused to pick up three golden apples that he had deliberately dropped
- athanasy — an absence of death or the condition of everlasting life
- athenian — a native or inhabitant of Athens
- atlantal — of or relating to the atlas.
- atlantes — supporting columns for an entablature, carved in the form of standing or kneeling figures of men
- atlantic — of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
- atlantis — (in ancient legend) a continent said to have sunk beneath the Atlantic Ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
- atosiban — (medicine) A medication, that inhibits oxytocin and vasopressin, used to halt premature labour.
- auckland — the chief port of New Zealand, in the northern part of North Island: former capital of New Zealand (1840–65). Pop: 450 300 (2010 est)
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- aularian — a student at an English university who belongs to a hall as opposed to a college
- aurelian — Latin name Lucius Domitius Aurelianus. ?212–275 ad, Roman emperor (270–275), who conquered Palmyra (273) and restored political unity to the Roman Empire
- aurorean — of or resembling dawn
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autobank — a machine offering cash and other banking services
- avantist — short for avant-gardist
- avellane — of hazelnuts
- avianize — to modify microorganisms by repeated culturing in chicken embryos
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- awanting — missing or in want of
- bacchant — a priest or votary of Bacchus
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- backhand — A backhand is a shot in tennis or squash, which you make with your arm across your body.
- backland — undeveloped land behind a developed property
- baconian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- bad bank — a financial institution set up to hold and manage underperforming assets owned by other banks
- badarian — designating or of a Neolithic culture of Egypt, characterized by cattle-breeding, fine pottery, and a large range of ornaments
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- bagwoman — a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
- bahamian — Bahamian means belonging or relating to the Bahamas or to its people or culture.
- bailsman — someone who stands bail for another
- bakwanga — former name of Mbuji-Mayi.
- balanced — A balanced report, book, or other document takes into account all the different opinions on something and presents information in a fair and reasonable way.
- balancer — a person or thing that balances