8-letter words containing ato
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dilatory — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donatory — a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- elevator — A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels.
- emulator — A person or thing that emulates.
- epilator — An electrical device used for hair removal by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out.
- equators — Plural form of equator.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- eschaton — The final event in the divine plan; the end of the world.
- evocator — Someone who evokes.
- expiator — One who makes expiation or atonement.
- fellator — to perform fellatio on.
- filatory — a machine for spinning thread
- fixators — Plural form of fixator.
- formator — (semiotics) A symbol that indicates a relationship between designators.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- gyratory — moving in a circle or spiral; gyrating.
- haemato- — indicating blood
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- hematoma — a circumscribed collection of blood, usually clotted, in a tissue or organ, caused by a break in a blood vessel.
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- idolator — Alternative spelling of idolater.
- ikhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- imitator — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- isolator — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- iterator — One which iterates.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- keratoma — keratosis.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- kitasato — Shibasaburo [shee-bah-sah-boo-raw] /ʃiˈbɑ sɑˈbu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.
- krakatoa — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- laudator — One who lauds.
- lavatory — a room fitted with equipment for washing the hands and face and usually with flush toilet facilities.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- libatory — relating to libation