8-letter words containing an
- alan kay — (person) The leader of the Software Concepts Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre which developed Smalltalk, the pioneering object-oriented programming system, in 1972.
- albanese — Licia [lee-chee-uh;; Italian lee-chah] /ˈli tʃi ə;; Italian ˈli tʃɑ/ (Show IPA), 1913–2014, Italian operatic soprano.
- albanian — Albanian means belonging or relating to Albania, its people, language, or culture.
- albertan — of or relating to Alberta or its inhabitants
- albicant — (rare) Growing or becoming white.
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alderman — In some parts of the United States and Canada, an alderman is a member of the governing body of a city.
- alemanni — a West Germanic people who settled in the 4th century ad between the Rhine, the Main, and the Danube
- aleutian — of, denoting, or relating to the Aleutian Islands, the Aleuts, or their language
- algerian — Algerian means belonging or relating to Algeria, or its people or culture.
- alicante — a port in SE Spain: commercial centre. Pop: 305 911 (2003 est)
- aliquant — of, signifying, or relating to a quantity or number that is not an exact divisor of a given quantity or number
- alkanets — Plural form of alkanet.
- alkannin — a dark red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, C 16 H 16 O 5 , obtained from the root of the alkanet: used chiefly for coloring fats, oils, and pharmaceuticals.
- allanite — a rare black or brown mineral consisting of the hydrated silicate of calcium, aluminium, iron, cerium, lanthanum, and other rare earth minerals. It occurs in granites and other igneous rocks. Formula: (Ca,Ce,La,Y)2(Al,Fe,Be,Mn,Mg)3(SiO4)3(OH)
- allemand — Misspelling of allemande.
- alliance — An alliance is a group of countries or political parties that are formally united and working together because they have similar aims.
- almanack — Alternative spelling of almanac.
- almanacs — Plural form of almanac.
- alsatian — An Alsatian is a large, usually fierce dog that is often used to guard buildings or by the police to help them find criminals.
- also-ran — If you describe someone as an also-ran, you mean that they have been or are likely to be unsuccessful in a contest.
- alterant — that which alters the state of something
- amandine — a protein found in almonds
- amanitin — a poison secreted by mushrooms of the genus Amanita
- amaranth — an imaginary flower that never fades
- ambiance — the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu: The restaurant had a delightful ambiance.
- ambulant — moving about from place to place
- american — An American is a person who comes from the United States of America.
- ammanati — Bartolommeo [bahr-taw-lawm-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔmˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1511–92, Italian architect and sculptor.
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.
- amorance — the state of being in love
- amratian — of, relating to, or belonging to the predynastic Chalcolithic culture that flourished in Upper Egypt about 3800 b.c., characterized by the working of raw gold, the use of copper, and the burial of the dead in shallow graves.
- an nafud — Nefud Desert.
- an-najaf — Najaf.
- anabaena — any freshwater alga of the genus Anabaena, sometimes occurring in drinking water, giving it a fishy taste and smell
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- anabatic — (of air currents) rising upwards, esp up slopes
- anableps — any of various cyprinodont fishes constituting the genus Anableps, which includes the four-eyed fishes
- anabolic — of or relating to anabolism
- anaconda — a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
- anacreon — ?572–?488 bc, Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine
- anacusis — total deafness.
- anadenia — deficient glandular activity.
- anadrome — A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
- anaerobe — an organism that does not require oxygen for respiration
- anaglyph — a stereoscopic picture consisting of two images of the same object, taken from slightly different angles, in two complementary colours, usually red and cyan (green-blue). When viewed through spectacles having one red and one cyan lens, the images merge to produce a stereoscopic sensation
- anagoges — Plural form of anagoge.
- anagogic — of or relating to an anagoge.
- anagrams — a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”.