8-letter words containing ai
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bellaire — a city in SE Texas, within the city limits of Houston.
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bid fair — to seem probable
- big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
- blairite — of or relating to the modernizing policies of Tony Blair
- boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
- bondmaid — an unmarried female serf or slave
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- braiding — braids collectively
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brailler — a device for producing text in Braille
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brainbox — the skull
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- brainiac — a highly intelligent person
- brainier — intelligent; clever; intellectual.
- braining — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- brainpan — the skull
- brantail — a redstart
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- bucktail — a fishing lure adorned with deer hair
- buzzbait — a fishing lure with small blades that stir the water
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- caimacam — a Turkish governor of a sanjak
- caingang — a member of an Indian people of southern Brazil.
- cairenes — (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Cairo, Egypt.
- caissons — Plural form of caisson.
- caitiffs — Plural form of caitiff.
- campaign — A campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change.
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- canaille — the masses; mob; rabble
- caodaism — an eclectic religion, originated in Cochin-China in 1926, combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist elements and affected to some extent by Christianity.
- captaine — Obsolete spelling of captain.
- captains — Plural form of captain.
- cat-tail — any tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha, especially T. latifolia, having long, sword-shaped leaves and dense, cylindrical clusters of minute brown flowers.
- cattails — Plural form of cattail.
- caudaite — a small meteorite, generally less than one half millimeter in diameter, containing crystals of more or less pure magnetite.
- chagatai — a Turkic literary language of medieval Central Asia.
- chainage — a length as measured by a surveyor's chain or tape.
- chaining — Present participle of chain.
- chainlet — a small chain of hotels, shops, etc
- chainman — a person who does the chaining in a survey