8-letter words starting with ad
- adultery — If a married person commits adultery, they have sex with someone that they are not married to.
- adultism — A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children).
- adumbral — shadowy
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- aduncity — the quality of being hooked or curved inward
- advanced — An advanced system, method, or design is modern and has been developed from an earlier version of the same thing.
- advancer — a person or thing that advances.
- advances — personal overtures made in an attempt to become friendly, gain a favour, etc
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- adverted — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advisees — one of a group of students assigned to a faculty adviser for help in selection of a course of studies.
- advisers — Plural form of adviser.
- advising — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- advisors — Plural form of advisor.
- advisory — An advisory group regularly gives suggestions and help to people or organizations, especially about a particular subject or area of activity.
- advocaat — a liqueur having a raw egg base
- advocacy — Someone's advocacy of a particular action or plan is their act of recommending it publicly.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- advoutry — adultery
- advowson — the right of presentation to a vacant benefice
- adynamia — loss of vital power or strength, esp as the result of illness; weakness or debility
- adynamic — Not dynamic; without strength or vigor.
- adynaton — (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility.