8-letter words containing ant
- naissant — (of a charge, especially an animal) issuing from the middle of an ordinary, especially a fess.
- nanterre — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- natantly — in a natant or floating manner
- nauseant — producing nausea.
- norplant — a contraceptive implant for women surgically inserted under the skin of the upper arm so as to release progesterone or various other steroid hormones gradually over a period of several years
- numantia — an ancient city in N Spain: besieged and taken 134–133 b.c. by Scipio the Younger.
- obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obstante — notwithstanding.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- octantal — relating to an octant
- odorants — Plural form of odorant.
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- oppilant — blocking, hindering, or obstructing
- ordinant — a line parallel to the y-axis or a distance of one point from the x-axis
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- ouessant — French name of Ushant.
- ozenfant — Amédée [a-mey-dey] /a meɪˈdeɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1966, French painter and writer, in the U.S. after 1938.
- pant leg — a leg of a pair of pants.
- pantable — a soft, slipper-like shoe
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- pantofle — a slipper.
- pantonal — marked by or using pantonality.
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- paravant — first; pre-eminently
- peasants — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- penchant — a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- phantast — a visionary or dreamer.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- pieplant — the edible rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum.
- plainant — a plaintiff
- plantage — plants
- plantain — any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plantlet — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.