8-letter words containing an
- annotate — If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it.
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- annoybot — (computing, slang) A bot within an IRC channel that sends annoying messages to online participants.
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- annually — of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly: annual salary.
- annulary — (archaic) Having the form of a ring; annular.
- 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
- annunzio — Gabriele [gah-bree-e-le] /ˌgɑ briˈɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), D'Annunzio, Gabriele.
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- anodally — in an anodal manner
- anodized — coated with a protective oxide film by electrolysis
- anodynes — Plural form of anodyne.
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anointed — chosen officially to do an important job
- anointer — One who anoints.
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anonymal — (rare) Anonymous.
- anoopsia — a form of squint in which the eye turns upwards
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexia — Anorexia or anorexia nervosa is an illness in which a person has an overwhelming fear of becoming fat, and so refuses to eat enough and becomes thinner and thinner.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- anourous — anurous.
- anovular — not associated with or accompanied by ovulation
- anoxemia — a reduction in the normal amount of oxygen in the blood, as at high altitudes
- anquetil — Jacques [zhak] /ʒak/ (Show IPA), 1934–87, French cyclist with five victories (1957, 1961–64) in the Tour de France.
- anregend — Stimulating, inspiring.
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- ansermet — Ernest (ɛrnɛst). 1883–1969, Swiss orchestral conductor; principal conductor of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
- ansi x12 — (standard) Standards defining the structure, format, and content of business transactions conducted through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ANSI X12 is produced by the committee ASC X12, supported by the Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (DISA).
- answered — Simple past tense and past participle of answer.
- answerer — someone who answers
- ant bear — a large, ant-eating, edentate mammal (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of Central America and tropical South America, with a long, shaggy tail; giant anteater
- ant bird — any of numerous passerine birds of the family Formicariidae, of the New World tropics, many species of which follow army ant swarms to feed on insects disturbed by the ants.
- ant hill — a mound of soil, leaves, etc, near the entrance of an ants' nest, carried and deposited there by the ants while constructing the nest
- ant lion — any of a family (Myrmeleontidae) of neuropteran insects, some of which have large-jawed larvae (doodlebugs) that lie hidden in cone-shaped pits where they feed on ants and other insects that fall in
- 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
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antagony — (obsolete) contest; opposition; antagonism.
- antakiya — Arabic name of Antioch.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- antbears — Plural form of antbear.
- antbirds — Plural form of antbird.
- anteater — An anteater is an animal with a long nose that eats termites or ants. Anteaters live in warm countries.
- antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
- antedate — to be or occur at an earlier date than
- antehall — a room or hall serving as a waiting room and entrance to a larger hall.