8-letter words containing ati
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- limation — The act of filing or polishing.
- literati — Well-educated people who are interested in literature.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- lusatian — a native or inhabitant of Lusatia.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- magmatic — Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- meatiest — Superlative form of meaty.
- muriatic — (not in scientific use) of or derived from muriatic acid.
- mutating — to change; alter.
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutative — to change; alter.
- natation — an act or the skill of swimming.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- natively — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- nativism — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- nativist — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- nativity — birth.
- negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nidation — implantation of an embryo in the lining of the uterus.
- nivation — erosion resulting from the action of frost beneath a snowbank.
- nodation — a thing that is knotted or lumpy
- notating — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- notation — a system of graphic symbols for a specialized use, other than ordinary writing: musical notation.
- novating — Present participle of novate.
- novation — Law. the substitution of a new obligation for an old one, usually by the substitution of a new debtor or of a new creditor.
- nudation — the process of removing coverings or garments or of causing to be bare or uncovered
- nunation — the doubling, in writing, of the final vowel symbol to indicate the addition, in speech, of the indefinite suffix n to certain nouns.
- nutating — Present participle of nutate.
- nutation — an act or instance of nodding one's head, especially involuntarily or spasmodically.
- nyatitis — Plural form of nyatiti.
- nystatin — a light-yellow antibiotic powder, C 4 6 H 7 7 NO 1 9 , produced by the microorganism Streptomyces noursei and used as an antifungal for infections due to various susceptible fungi, especially those of the genus Candida that primarily infect the skin, mucous membranes, gastrointestinal tract, and vagina.
- oblation — the offering to God of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist.
- occation — Misspelling of occasion.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- optation — (obsolete) The act of optating; a wish.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- orations — Plural form of oration.