8-letter words ending with AN
Dive into the specific realm of 8-letter words that conclude with the letter AN. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with AN, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| chairman | 15 | act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | - |
| superman | 12 | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | - |
| guardian | 10 | a person who cares for persons or property | - |
| musician | 12 | someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) | - |
| egyptian | 14 | a native or inhabitant of Egypt | - |
| salesman | 10 | a man salesperson | - |
| magician | 13 | someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | - |
| civilian | 13 | a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| freshman | 16 | a first-year undergraduate | - |
| comedian | 13 | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | - |
| michigan | 16 | a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | - |
| watchman | 18 | a guard who keeps watch | - |
| suburban | 12 | relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | suburban population |
| horseman | 13 | a man skilled in equitation | - |
| talisman | 10 | a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | - |
| bohemian | 15 | a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) | - |
| hooligan | 12 | a cruel and brutal fellow | - |
| handyman | 17 | a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks | - |
| nobleman | 12 | a titled peer of the realm | - |
| chinaman | 15 | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | - |
| dutchman | 16 | a native or inhabitant of Holland | - |
| venetian | 11 | a resident of Venice | - |
| madwoman | 16 | a woman lunatic | - |
| henchman | 18 | someone who assists in a plot | - |
| marksman | 16 | someone skilled in shooting | - |
| mulligan | 11 | Irish version of burgoo | - |
| bogeyman | 16 | an imaginary monster used to frighten children | - |
| partisan | 10 | an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | - |
| lifespan | 13 | the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | - |
| obsidian | 11 | acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces | - |
| meridian | 11 | being at the best stage of development | - |
| marzipan | 21 | almond paste and egg whites | - |
| parmesan | 12 | hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated | - |
| waterman | 13 | someone who drives or rides in a boat | - |
| spaceman | 14 | a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | - |
| alderman | 11 | a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
| coachman | 17 | a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
| cardigan | 12 | slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail | - |
| prussian | 10 | a German inhabitant of Prussia | - |
| corpsman | 14 | - | - |
| houseman | 13 | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) | - |
| bondsman | 13 | someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| saucepan | 12 | a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling | - |
| rifleman | 13 | a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
| wingspan | 14 | linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | - |
| huntsman | 13 | someone who hunts game | - |
| herdsman | 14 | someone who drives a herd | - |
| ferryman | 16 | a man who operates a ferry | - |
| valerian | 11 | a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
| woodsman | 14 | makes things out of wood | - |
| thespian | 13 | a theatrical performer | - |
| soundman | 11 | a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
| cesarean | 10 | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | - |
| everyman | 16 | the ordinary person | - |
| harridan | 12 | a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
| optician | 12 | a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision | - |
| spearman | 12 | - | - |
| helmsman | 15 | the person who steers a ship | - |
| subhuman | 15 | less than human or not worthy of a human being | treated natives as subhuman |
| boardman | 13 | - | - |
| plebeian | 12 | of or associated with the great masses of people | his square plebeian nose |
| pressman | 12 | someone whose occupation is printing | - |
| agrarian | 9 | relating to farming or agriculture | an agrarian (or agricultural) society |
| linesman | 10 | a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | - |
| landsman | 11 | an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | - |
| toboggan | 12 | move along on a luge or toboggan | - |
| trainman | 10 | an employee of a railroad | - |
| partizan | 19 | an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | - |
| freedman | 14 | a person who has been freed from slavery | - |
| nonhuman | 13 | not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings | nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees |
| publican | 14 | the keeper of a public house | - |
| radioman | 11 | - | - |
| cerulean | 10 | a light shade of blue | - |
| wheelman | 16 | - | - |
| stockman | 16 | farmer who breed or raises livestock | - |
| diocesan | 11 | a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
| townsman | 13 | a resident of a town or city | - |
| aquarian | 17 | - | - |
| jerrycan | 20 | - | - |
| moneyman | 15 | a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | - |
| swordman | 14 | - | - |
| pitchman | 17 | someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | - |
| funnyman | 16 | - | - |
| glassman | 11 | - | - |
| cetacean | 12 | of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | - |
| arcadian | 11 | (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | a country life of arcadian contentment |
| aurelian | 8 | - | - |
| barbican | 14 | a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | - |
| boatsman | 12 | - | - |
| empyrean | 15 | the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | - |
| faustian | 11 | pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values | - |
| motorman | 12 | the operator of streetcar | - |
| tarlatan | 8 | - | - |
| artesian | 8 | (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | an artesian well |
| brainpan | 12 | the part of the skull that encloses the brain | - |
| gaussian | 9 | of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability | - |
| chessman | 15 | any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | - |
| clansman | 12 | a member of a clan | - |
| dairyman | 14 | the owner or manager of a dairy | - |
| devonian | 12 | from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites | - |
| urodelan | 9 | - | - |
| weighman | 17 | - | - |
| wealsman | 13 | - | - |
| wannigan | 12 | - | - |
| winchman | 18 | - | - |
| widowman | 17 | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | - |
| whaleman | 16 | - | - |
| yachtman | 18 | - | - |
| yarraman | 13 | - | - |
| yataghan | 15 | a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
| venerean | 11 | - | - |
| vesuvian | 14 | a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | - |
| verseman | 13 | - | - |
| viridian | 12 | - | - |
| stuntman | 10 | - | - |
| stroupan | 10 | - | - |
| storeman | 10 | - | - |
| subocean | 12 | formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | suboceanic oil resources |
| swagsman | 14 | - | - |
| sutorian | 8 | - | - |
| sweetman | 13 | - | - |
| superfan | 13 | - | - |
| sumpitan | 12 | - | - |
| tacksman | 16 | - | - |
| taboggan | 12 | - | - |
| talesman | 10 | - | - |
| tallyman | 13 | one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | - |
| swingman | 14 | - | - |
| syrphian | 16 | - | - |
| tarletan | 8 | - | - |
| tidesman | 11 | - | - |
| tragopan | 11 | brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head | - |
| toywoman | 16 | - | - |
| trackman | 16 | - | - |
| trashman | 13 | - | - |
| trashcan | 13 | - | - |
| trappean | 12 | - | - |
| truchman | 15 | - | - |
| truckman | 16 | - | - |
| trewsman | 13 | - | - |
| trimaran | 10 | a fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls | - |
| turbofan | 13 | a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | - |
| underman | 11 | - | - |
| underran | 9 | - | - |
| staffman | 16 | - | - |
| squawman | 22 | - | - |
| steelman | 10 | a worker engaged in making steel | - |
| stillman | 10 | - | - |
| stickman | 16 | - | - |
| stallman | 10 | - | - |
| riverman | 13 | - | - |
| roadsman | 11 | - | - |
| riparian | 10 | of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | riparian land |
| routeman | 10 | - | - |
| rubellan | 10 | - | - |
| rosarian | 8 | - | - |
| salopian | 10 | - | - |
| scalepan | 12 | - | - |
| sceneman | 12 | - | - |
| seawoman | 13 | - | - |
| selenian | 8 | - | - |
| seedsman | 11 | a dealer in seeds | - |
| shearman | 13 | - | - |
| sheepman | 15 | a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | - |
| shireman | 13 | - | - |
| shadchan | 17 | - | - |
| shadkhan | 19 | - | - |
| shareman | 13 | - | - |
| sidesman | 11 | (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church | - |
| shwanpan | 16 | - | - |
| sialidan | 9 | - | - |
| silurian | 8 | from 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals | - |
| shoreman | 13 | - | - |
| skokiaan | 16 | - | - |
| sirenian | 8 | any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs | - |
| skeechan | 17 | - | - |
| sneeshan | 11 | - | - |
| sonarman | 10 | - | - |
| spelaean | 10 | - | - |
| spademan | 13 | - | - |
| reinsman | 10 | - | - |
| papyrian | 15 | - | - |
| parazoan | 19 | primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | - |
| pentosan | 10 | - | - |
| pelorian | 10 | - | - |
| pemmican | 16 | lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | - |
| perigean | 11 | - | - |
| penwoman | 15 | - | - |
| pattypan | 15 | - | - |
| pavonian | 13 | - | - |
| pelagian | 11 | - | - |
| piazzian | 28 | - | - |
| picarian | 12 | - | - |
| peterman | 12 | - | - |
| pivotman | 15 | - | - |
| placeman | 14 | a disparaging term for an appointee | - |
| plateman | 12 | - | - |
| plaidman | 13 | - | - |
| pilotman | 12 | - | - |
| pigmaean | 13 | - | - |
| pointman | 12 | - | - |
| pozzolan | 28 | - | - |
| polyzoan | 22 | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | - |
| portolan | 10 | - | - |
| portulan | 10 | - | - |
| priapean | 12 | - | - |
| preclean | 12 | - | - |
| prehuman | 15 | - | - |
| proseman | 12 | - | - |
| prizeman | 21 | - | - |
| pygmaean | 16 | - | - |
| quarrian | 17 | - | - |
| qalamdan | 20 | - | - |
| punaluan | 10 | - | - |
| puntsman | 12 | - | - |
| raftsman | 13 | someone who travels by raft | - |
| rambutan | 12 | pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines | - |
| rampsman | 14 | - | - |
| quillman | 19 | - | - |
| rataplan | 10 | the sound made by beating a drum | - |
| ranarian | 8 | - | - |
| ranchman | 15 | - | - |
| regalian | 9 | - | - |
| oversman | 13 | - | - |
| overplan | 13 | - | - |
| pagurian | 11 | - | - |
| panhuman | 15 | - | - |
| panacean | 12 | - | - |
| amoebean | 12 | - | - |
| apiarian | 10 | relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
| aphelian | 13 | - | - |
| aphidian | 14 | - | - |
| ascidian | 11 | minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
| archaean | 13 | of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | - |
| arbutean | 10 | - | - |
| aurorean | 8 | characteristic of the dawn | - |
| aularian | 8 | - | - |
| bandsman | 13 | a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
| bandyman | 16 | - | - |
| bargeman | 13 | someone who operates a barge | - |
| banksman | 16 | - | - |
| bacchian | 17 | - | - |
| bailsman | 12 | - | - |
| beadsman | 13 | a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | - |
| bedesman | 13 | a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | - |
| bartisan | 10 | - | - |
| bartizan | 19 | - | - |
| barracan | 12 | - | - |
| batwoman | 15 | - | - |
| besonian | 10 | - | - |
| berrigan | 11 | - | - |
| berghaan | 14 | - | - |
| billycan | 15 | - | - |
| bioclean | 12 | - | - |
| bezonian | 19 | - | - |
| bluesman | 12 | - | - |
| bothyman | 18 | - | - |
| brakeman | 16 | a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
| boogyman | 16 | - | - |
| bryozoan | 22 | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | - |
| buckbean | 18 | perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | - |
| brideman | 13 | - | - |
| brinkman | 16 | - | - |
| busulfan | 13 | - | - |
| butsudan | 11 | - | - |
| buttyman | 15 | - | - |
| actinian | 10 | any sea anemone or related animal | - |
| airwoman | 13 | a woman aviator | - |
| agnathan | 12 | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | - |
| eburnean | 10 | - | - |
| earthman | 13 | an inhabitant of the earth | - |
| ectozoan | 19 | of or relating to epizoa | - |
| entozoan | 17 | of or relating to entozoa | - |
| epigaean | 11 | - | - |
| ethician | 13 | a philosopher who specializes in ethics | - |
| eulachan | 13 | - | - |
| favonian | 14 | - | - |
| filarian | 11 | - | - |
| foreplan | 13 | - | - |
| foremean | 13 | - | - |
| forgeman | 14 | - | - |
| foilsman | 13 | - | - |
| fugleman | 14 | a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader) | a fugleman for the radical right |
| frontman | 13 | - | - |
| fraughan | 15 | - | - |
| gamesman | 13 | - | - |
| gallican | 11 | relating to or characteristic of Gallicanism | - |
| gangsman | 12 | - | - |
| furfuran | 14 | a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | - |
| dipteran | 11 | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | - |
| dragsman | 12 | - | - |
| dragoman | 12 | an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
| doorsman | 11 | - | - |
| doomsman | 13 | - | - |
| gownsman | 14 | - | - |
| gypseian | 14 | - | - |
| hermaean | 13 | - | - |
| hielaman | 13 | - | - |
| headsman | 14 | an executioner who beheads the condemned person | - |
| hominian | 13 | characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | - |
| hoolican | 13 | - | - |
| hoastman | 13 | - | - |
| hoistman | 13 | - | - |
| hyoidean | 15 | - | - |
| hymenean | 16 | - | - |
| hypogean | 17 | - | - |
| hotelman | 13 | an owner or manager of hotels | - |
| idyllian | 12 | - | - |
| iguanian | 9 | - | - |
| insectan | 10 | of or relating to the class Insecta | - |
| isthmian | 13 | of or relating to or forming an isthmus | - |
| isopodan | 11 | - | - |
| jambolan | 19 | - | - |
| islesman | 10 | - | - |
| kalamdan | 15 | - | - |
| jerrican | 17 | - | - |
| knifeman | 17 | - | - |
| larrigan | 9 | - | - |
| langshan | 12 | - | - |
| gildsman | 12 | - | - |
| gavelman | 14 | - | - |
| goadsman | 12 | - | - |
| lunarian | 8 | - | - |
| macruran | 12 | - | - |
| lodesman | 11 | - | - |
| loftsman | 13 | - | - |
| logician | 11 | a person skilled at symbolic logic | - |
| marchman | 17 | - | - |
| malarian | 10 | - | - |
| melanian | 10 | - | - |
| milesian | 10 | - | - |
| metazoan | 19 | any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
| meresman | 12 | - | - |
| mesozoan | 19 | - | - |
| merryman | 15 | - | - |
| misbegan | 13 | - | - |
| morphean | 15 | - | - |
| monecian | 12 | - | - |
| neopagan | 11 | - | - |
| mycelian | 15 | - | - |
| nonpagan | 11 | - | - |
| nonurban | 10 | - | - |
| nicotian | 10 | - | - |
| oedipean | 11 | - | - |
| nutarian | 8 | - | - |
| nymphean | 18 | - | - |
| ophidian | 14 | limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | - |
| ophiuran | 13 | - | - |
| ordalian | 9 | - | - |
| oolachan | 13 | - | - |
| lemurian | 10 | - | - |
| lernaean | 8 | - | - |
| laywoman | 16 | - | - |
| leadsman | 11 | - | - |
| locksman | 16 | - | - |
| liegeman | 11 | a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | - |
| linksman | 14 | someone who plays the game of golf | - |
| chainman | 15 | - | - |
| cesarian | 10 | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | - |
| chitosan | 13 | - | - |
| choreman | 15 | - | - |
| chlordan | 14 | - | - |
| choirman | 15 | - | - |
| classman | 12 | - | - |
| colorman | 12 | - | - |
| cordovan | 14 | a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
| conidian | 11 | - | - |
| conquian | 19 | - | - |
| conurban | 12 | - | - |
| cragsman | 13 | a climber of vertical rock faces | - |
| creolian | 10 | - | - |
| cotquean | 19 | - | - |
| countian | 10 | - | - |
| cumacean | 14 | - | - |
| dalesman | 11 | a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
| dedalian | 10 | - | - |
| demonian | 11 | - | - |
| digynian | 13 | - | - |
| diluvian | 12 | of or connected with a deluge | - |
| caducean | 13 | of or relating to a caduceus | - |
| acaridan | 11 | - | - |
| oolichan | 13 | - | - |
| nonavian | 11 | - | - |
| odyssean | 12 | - | - |
| linkspan | 14 | - | - |
| permatan | 12 | - | - |
| proturan | 10 | any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | - |
| echiuran | 13 | - | - |
| candyman | 16 | - | - |
| canoeman | 12 | - | - |
| conwoman | 15 | - | - |
| cocksman | 18 | - | - |
| floorpan | 13 | - | - |
| tenorman | 10 | - | - |
| transman | 10 | - | - |
| sorbitan | 10 | - | - |
