8-letter words containing a, c, n
- asconoid — pertaining to or resembling an ascon.
- asthenic — of, relating to, or having asthenia; weak
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- atchison — a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River.
- atechnic — a person who has no technical or scientific ability or understanding
- atlantic — of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
- auckland — the chief port of New Zealand, in the northern part of North Island: former capital of New Zealand (1840–65). Pop: 450 300 (2010 est)
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- avicenna — Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- babycino — a drink of frothy milk with a chocolate topping, designed as an alternative to coffee for young children
- bacchant — a priest or votary of Bacchus
- back end — autumn
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- back-end — (programming) Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end.
- backband — a moulding used at the edges of a window casing
- backbend — a gymnastic exercise in which the trunk is bent backwards until the hands touch the floor
- backbond — a legal document qualifying the terms of a bond or explaining the purpose for which a bond has been granted
- backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backhand — A backhand is a shot in tennis or squash, which you make with your arm across your body.
- backings — Plural form of backing.
- backland — undeveloped land behind a developed property
- backline — (in some team sports) the defensive players considered as a unit
- backlink — An incoming hyperlink from one web page to another website.
- backlins — backward; back.
- backpain — Alternative form of back pain.
- backspin — a backward spinning motion imparted to a ball to reduce its speed at impact, as by hitting it with a downward or undercutting motion
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- baconian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- bacterin — a vaccine prepared from bacteria
- bactrian — of or relating to Bactria
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- balanced — A balanced report, book, or other document takes into account all the different opinions on something and presents information in a fair and reasonable way.
- balancer — a person or thing that balances
- balances — Plural form of balance.
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- ballance — John. 1839–93, New Zealand statesman, born in Northern Ireland: prime minister of New Zealand (1891–93)
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian