8-letter words that end in an
- indianan — of Indiana
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- interlan — A brand of Ethernet card.
- irishman — a man born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- iron man — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- iron pan — a hard layer of precipitated iron salts often found below the surface of sands and gravels
- isaurian — of or relating to Isauria, an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, or its inhabitants
- islesman — an islander
- isthmian — of or relating to an isthmus.
- jacobean — of or relating to James I of England or to his period.
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.
- jafaican — a dialect of English spoken in London, with marked Jamaican influences
- jamaican — of or relating to the island of Jamaica or its inhabitants.
- jambolan — an evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family that is native to southern Asia and which produces a fruit that is edible and which is also used in alternative medicine
- jamesian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the novelist Henry James or his writings.
- java man — the fossil remains of Homo erectus found in Java.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- jerrycan — A large, flat -sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically gasoline or water.
- jerseyan — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- jonathan — a son of Saul and friend of David. I Sam. 18–20.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kalamdan — a Persian pen-box
- karelian — of or relating to Karelia, its people, or their language.
- kelantan — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- kingsman — (military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
- klansman — a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- kleinian — referring to the theories formulated by Austrian child psychiatrist Melanie Klein (1882–1960).
- knifeman — A knifeman is someone who has attacked or killed someone with a knife.
- kordofan — a province in the central Sudan. About 147,000 sq. mi. (380,730 sq. km). Capital: El Obeid.
- lacanian — of or relating to the ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, esp his interpretations of language and linguistics in psychoanalytic contexts
- laconian — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- lahontan — Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California, about 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
- laingian — of or based on R. D. Laing's theory that mental illnesses are understandable as natural responses to stress in family and social situations
- lake van — a salt lake in E Turkey, at an altitude of 1650 m (5400 ft): fed by melting snow and glaciers. Area: 3737 sq km (1433 sq miles)
- landsman — Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
- langshan — one of a breed of large, black or white, white-skinned Asiatic domestic chickens, having a single comb and feathered shanks and producing dark-brown eggs.
- larrigan — a knee-high boot of oiled leather with a moccasin foot, worn by lumbermen and trappers.
- latinian — Latino-Faliscan.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leaseman — a person who leases land and obtains the rights to its use, especially oil-drilling rights.
- lernaean — relating to Lerna, the swamp or lake near Argos in which dwelt the Hydra which Hercules slew
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- liberian — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- liegeman — a vassal; subject.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.