8-letter words that end in an
- somalian — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- sonarman — a petty officer who operates and maintains sonar.
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- spademan — a man who works with spade
- spearman — a person who is armed with or uses a spear.
- spelaean — of, relating to, or inhabiting a cave or caves.
- spellman — Francis Joseph, Cardinal, 1889–1967, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of New York 1939–67.
- squawman — a White or other non-American-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman
- st.-jean — Lac [lak] /lak/ (Show IPA) a lake in S central Quebec, Canada, NNW of Quebec City, drained by the Saguenay River. 387 sq. mi. (1003 sq. km).
- staffman — staffer.
- stallman — a person who runs a bookstall or similar stall
- steelman — a person engaged in the steelmaking business.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stockman — U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- stuntman — a man who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- subhuman — less than or not quite human.
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sullivan — Annie (Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy) 1866–1936, U.S. teacher of Helen Keller.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- swiftian — of or relating to Jonathan Swift
- swingman — a player who can play either of two positions, usually guard and forward.
- swordman — swordsman.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tacitean — of, relating to, or characteristic of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.
- tacksman — a leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets
- tacloban — a seaport on NE Leyte, in the central Philippines.
- tahitian — of or relating to Tahiti, its inhabitants, or their language.
- tail fan — the fanlike posterior appendage of crayfish and lobsters, consisting of a telson and two uropods, used for rapid backward propulsion.
- talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- tallyman — a person who tallies or keeps account of something.
- tangshan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China.
- tarascan — a member of an American Indian people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
- tarlatan — a thin, plain-weave, open-mesh cotton fabric finished with stiffening agents and sometimes glazed.
- tarpeian — designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death
- tatarian — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- teresian — a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- test ban — an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere.