8-letter words that end in t
- antismut — opposed to or acting to prevent the circulation of obscene material
- antistat — a substance that prevents or reduces the accumulation of static electricity
- antithet — an example of antithesis; an antithetic statement
- aperient — laxative
- aphorist — a person who makes or uses aphorisms.
- apiarist — a person who studies or keeps bees
- apoplast — the nonprotoplasmic component of a plant, including the cell walls and intercellular material
- apparent — An apparent situation, quality, or feeling seems to exist, although you cannot be certain that it does exist.
- appestat — a neural control centre within the hypothalamus of the brain that regulates the sense of hunger and satiety
- appetent — having an eager longing or desire
- aquaduct — Misspelling of aqueduct.
- aquanaut — a person who lives and works underwater
- aquarist — the curator of an aquarium
- 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
- aqueduct — An aqueduct is a long bridge with many arches, which carries a water supply or a canal over a valley.
- arbalest — a large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means
- arbalist — a powerful medieval crossbow with a steel bow, used to shoot stones, metal balls, arrows, etc.
- arborist — a specialist in the cultivation of trees
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- archaist — something archaic, as a word or expression.
- arclight — A lamp that produces light by generating an electric arc across an enclosed gas.
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- armament — Armament is used to refer to weapons and bombs carried by an aircraft or other military vehicle.
- armgaunt — (of limbs) slender
- armorist — a heraldry expert
- army ant — any of various mainly tropical American predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animals
- arrogant — Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others.
- arsonist — An arsonist is a person who deliberately sets fire to a building or vehicle.
- artefact — An artefact is an ornament, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.
- artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
- artivist — A person who engages in artivism.
- as-sirat — the correct path of religion
- ashcroft — Dame Peggy. 1907–91, English stage and film actress
- ashgabat — capital of Turkmenistan, in the SC part, near the Iranian border: pop. 411,000
- ashplant — a walking stick made from an ash sapling
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- assignat — the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés
- assonant — resemblance of sounds.
- at about — time: at approximately
- at fault — If someone or something is at fault, they are to blame or are responsible for a particular situation that has gone wrong.
- at first — You use at first when you are talking about what happens in the early stages of an event or experience, or just after something else has happened, in contrast to what happens later.
- at heart — If you say that someone is a particular kind of person at heart, you mean that that is what they are really like, even though they may seem very different.
- at least — You use at least to say that a number or amount is the smallest that is possible or likely and that the actual number or amount may be greater. The forms at the least and at the very least are also used.
- at night — If it is a particular time at night, it is during the time when it is dark and is before midnight.
- at sight — as soon as seen
- at worst — under the worst circumstances; at the greatest disadvantage
- atari st — (computer) A personal computer released by Atari in 1985. The "ST" stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", from the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit processor. The original 520ST model had an external floppy drive and power supply whereas the 1040ST had them built-in. The 520 and later 520STFM came with 512 KB of RAM, the 1040 had 1 MB. Several upgraded models followed, up to the 1993 Motorola 68030 based Falcon. The ST was the first home computer with built-in MIDI ports and plenty of MIDI software. A wide range of other software from office to games was also available.
- atrament — a liquid substance that is black in colour
- attentat — any attempt at a violent, political act