8-letter words containing a, c, n
- anicetus — Saint, pope a.d. 155?–166?.
- aniconic — (of images of deities, symbols, etc) not portrayed in a human or animal form
- animalic — relating to animals
- animatic — an initial edition or forerunner of a film, often a commercial, which contains a sequence of storyboard shots accompanied by a soundtrack
- announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
- anocracy — A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
- anodynic — relating to the soothing or alleviating of pain
- anomeric — (organic chemistry) Of, or pertaining to anomers.
- anorchia — An intersex condition of XY individuals where both testes are absent at birth.
- anorexic — If someone is anorexic, they are suffering from anorexia and so are very thin.
- anoscope — proctoscope.
- antacids — Plural form of antacid.
- antalgic — relieving or reducing pain
- antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
- anthemic — (of a song) like an anthem in being rousing or uplifting.
- antiacid — Antacid.
- antiacne — inhibiting the development of acne
- anticity — opposed to cities
- anticize — to play absurdly, or perform antics
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- anticlot — Countering clotting of the blood.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- anticous — (in plants) facing the axis of the flower
- anticult — opposed to religious cults
- antilock — designed to prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
- antipyic — acting against or preventing suppuration
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- any luck — If you ask someone the question 'Any luck?' or 'No luck?', you want to know if they have been successful in something they were trying to do.
- anyplace — Anyplace means the same as anywhere.
- apachean — a subgroup of the Athabaskan language family comprising the languages of the Apache tribes and the Navajo.
- apocrine — denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
- arachnid — any terrestrial chelicerate arthropod of the class Arachnida, characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs. The group includes the spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, and harvestmen
- arancini — (in Italian cookery) a dish consisting of balls of rice stuffed with a savoury filling, coated in breadcrumbs and fried
- araucana — any of numerous varieties of domestic chickens derived from South American wild fowl, noted for producing pale blue, green, or pinkish eggs.
- arc sine — the angle, measured in radians, that has a sine equal to a given number. Symbol: sin −1. Abbreviation: arc sin, arcsin;
- arcadian — of or relating to Arcadia or its inhabitants, esp the idealized Arcadia of pastoral poetry
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- arcanist — a person with secret knowledge of a manufacturing technique
- archaean — any member of the Archaea, a domain of prokaryotic microorganisms, distinguished from bacteria on molecular phylogenetic grounds and often found in hostile environments, such as volcanic vents and hot springs
- archaeon — A microorganism, physically resembling a bacterium, of the kingdom Archaea.
- archbanc — archebanc.
- archness — the quality of being arch, or saucily mischievous
- argentic — of or containing silver in the divalent or trivalent state
- armagnac — Armagnac is a type of brandy made in south-west France.
- armonica — a glass harmonica, being a musical instrument of the 18th century consisting of a set of glass bowls of graduated pitches, played by rubbing the fingers over the moistened rims or by a keyboard mechanism
- ascanius — the son of Aeneas and Creusa; founder of Alba Longa, mother city of Rome
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)