8-letter words containing in
- anointed — chosen officially to do an important job
- anointer — One who anoints.
- anserine — of or resembling a goose
- antiarin — a poison derived from antiar
- antiking — a person who declares himself king in opposition to an established monarch
- antimine — designed to counteract landmines
- antinode — a point at which the amplitude of one of the two kinds of displacement in a standing wave has maximum value. Generally the other kind of displacement has its minimum value at this point
- antinome — a thing that contradicts or is contrary to another, an opposite
- antinomy — opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
- antinous — the chief suitor of Penelope, killed by Odysseus upon his return from Troy.
- antinuke — opposed to nuclear weapons or energy
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- anythink — (UK) eye dialect of anything.
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- appaling — Misspelling of appalling.
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- appoints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appoint.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- aquatint — a technique of etching copper with acid to produce an effect resembling the flat tones of wash or watercolour. The tone or tint is obtained by acid (aqua) biting through the pores of a ground that only partially protects the copper
- aquiline — If someone has an aquiline nose or profile, their nose is large, thin, and usually curved.
- arancini — (in Italian cookery) a dish consisting of balls of rice stuffed with a savoury filling, coated in breadcrumbs and fried
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- arginase — an enzyme which hydrolyses arginine into ornithine and urea
- arginine — an essential amino acid of plant and animal proteins, necessary for nutrition and for the production of excretory urea
- ariminum — Rimini
- arisings — Waste products or byproducts of an industrial process.
- arminian — denoting, relating to, or believing in the Christian Protestant doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, published in 1610, which rejected absolute predestination and insisted that the sovereignty of God is compatible with free will in man. These doctrines deeply influenced Wesleyan and Methodist theology
- arminius — ?17 bc–?21 ad, Germanic chieftain: organized a revolt against the Romans in 9 ad
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arraying — Present participle of array.
- arretine — of or relating to Arretium (the ancient Latin name of Arezzo, a city in central Italy)
- arriving — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- arrowing — Present participle of arrow.
- artiness — The quality of being arty.
- ashiness — the condition of being like ash in colour or texture or of containing or being coated with ash
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- aspirins — Plural form of aspirin.
- assassin — An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assinine — Alternative spelling of asinine.
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- astatine — a radioactive element of the halogen series: a decay product of uranium and thorium that occurs naturally in minute amounts and is artificially produced by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. Symbol: At; atomic no: 85; half-life of most stable isotope, 210At: 8.1 hours; probable valency: 1,3,5, or 7; melting pt: 302°C; boiling pt: 337°C (est)
- astringe — to contract or become contracted
- atabrine — quinacrine hydrochloride, C23H30ClN3O·2HCl·2H2O, a synthetic drug used in treating malaria and other diseases
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- atherine — any of several small fish of the genus Atherina