8-letter words starting with AN
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter AN. This section showcases how AN at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with AN, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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anything | 15 | - | - |
anywhere | 17 | at or in or to any place | you can find this food anywhere |
annoying | 12 | causing irritation or annoyance | tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork |
announce | 10 | announce publicly or officially | - |
analysis | 11 | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | his physician recommended psychoanalysis |
antidote | 9 | a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | - |
ancestor | 10 | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | - |
ancients | 10 | people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
angelica | 11 | any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | - |
animated | 11 | having life or vigor or spirit | an animated and expressive face |
analyzed | 21 | examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | the analyzed data indicated surprising trends |
anyplace | 15 | at or in or to any place | - |
aneurysm | 13 | a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | - |
antelope | 10 | graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks | - |
ancestry | 13 | inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | - |
anorexic | 17 | a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | - |
anaconda | 11 | large arboreal boa of tropical South America | - |
annually | 11 | by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | - |
antennas | 8 | - | - |
animator | 10 | someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | - |
anecdote | 11 | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | - |
antennae | 8 | - | - |
annulled | 9 | - | - |
anorexia | 15 | a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite | - |
analysed | 12 | - | - |
anterior | 8 | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth | his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
anteater | 8 | a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | - |
analogue | 9 | something having the property of being analogous to something else | - |
anabolic | 12 | characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily |
analyzer | 20 | an instrument that performs analyses | - |
anteroom | 10 | a large entrance or reception room or area | - |
anathema | 13 | a detested person | he is an anathema to me |
analytic | 13 | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | `all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition |
anarchic | 15 | without law or control | the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic |
antibody | 14 | any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response | - |
angriest | 9 | - | - |
anisette | 8 | liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | - |
aneurism | 10 | a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | - |
anagrams | 11 | a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
annotate | 8 | provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | He annotated on what his teacher had written |
antidrug | 10 | - | - |
antitank | 12 | designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
anaphase | 13 | the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
anatomic | 12 | of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | anatomical research |
androgen | 10 | male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics | - |
anechoic | 15 | not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent | an anechoic chamber |
antinomy | 13 | a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable | - |
antihero | 11 | a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | - |
antimony | 13 | a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite | - |
anabaena | 10 | - | - |
anabases | 10 | - | - |
anabasis | 10 | - | - |
anabatic | 12 | of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | an anabatic wind |
anableps | 12 | - | - |
anaemias | 10 | - | - |
anaerobe | 10 | an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live | - |
anaglyph | 17 | anything carved in low relief | - |
anagoges | 10 | - | - |
anagogic | 12 | based on or exemplifying anagoge | - |
analcime | 12 | - | - |
analcite | 10 | - | - |
analecta | 10 | a collection of excerpts from a literary work | - |
analects | 10 | a collection of excerpts from a literary work | - |
analemma | 12 | - | - |
analgias | 9 | - | - |
analogic | 11 | - | - |
analogon | 9 | - | - |
analyser | 11 | an instrument that performs analyses | - |
analyses | 11 | - | - |
analysts | 11 | - | - |
analytes | 11 | - | - |
analyzes | 20 | - | - |
ananases | 8 | - | - |
anapaest | 10 | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | - |
anapests | 10 | - | - |
anaphora | 13 | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | - |
anaphors | 13 | - | - |
anarchal | 13 | - | - |
anasarca | 10 | generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
anatases | 8 | - | - |
anatexes | 15 | - | - |
anatexis | 15 | - | - |
anatmans | 10 | - | - |
anatoxin | 15 | a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin | - |
anatropy | 13 | - | - |
anburies | 10 | - | - |
anchored | 14 | - | - |
anchoret | 13 | - | - |
anchusas | 13 | - | - |
anchusin | 13 | - | - |
ancillae | 10 | - | - |
ancillas | 10 | - | - |
anconeal | 10 | - | - |
anconoid | 11 | - | - |
andantes | 9 | - | - |
andesine | 9 | - | - |
andesite | 9 | a dark grey volcanic rock | - |
andesyte | 12 | - | - |
andirons | 9 | - | - |
androids | 10 | - | - |
andviles | 12 | - | - |
anearing | 9 | - | - |
anecdota | 11 | - | - |
anelaces | 10 | - | - |
anemones | 10 | - | - |
anemoses | 10 | - | - |
anemosis | 10 | - | - |
anergias | 9 | - | - |
anergies | 9 | - | - |
aneroids | 9 | - | - |
anestrum | 10 | applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | - |
anestrus | 8 | applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | - |
anethole | 11 | - | - |
anethols | 11 | - | - |
aneurins | 8 | - | - |
angakoks | 17 | - | - |
angarias | 9 | - | - |
angaries | 9 | - | - |
angekkok | 21 | - | - |
angekoks | 17 | - | - |
angeling | 10 | - | - |
angering | 10 | - | - |
anginose | 9 | of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | - |
anginous | 9 | of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | - |
angiomas | 11 | - | - |
angklung | 14 | - | - |
angledug | 11 | - | - |
anglepod | 12 | - | - |
anglings | 10 | - | - |
anglists | 9 | - | - |
angstier | 9 | - | - |
angstrom | 11 | a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | - |
anguiped | 12 | - | - |
angulate | 9 | having angles or an angular shape | - |
angulose | 9 | - | - |
angulous | 9 | - | - |
anhedral | 12 | - | - |
anhingas | 12 | - | - |
aniconic | 12 | - | - |
anilines | 8 | - | - |
animalic | 12 | - | - |
animally | 13 | - | - |
animater | 10 | - | - |
animates | 10 | - | - |
animatic | 12 | - | - |
animatos | 10 | - | - |
animisms | 12 | - | - |
animists | 10 | - | - |
animuses | 10 | - | - |
aniridia | 9 | - | - |
aniridic | 11 | - | - |
aniseeds | 9 | - | - |
anisoles | 8 | - | - |
ankerite | 12 | - | - |
anklongs | 13 | - | - |
anklungs | 13 | - | - |
ankushes | 15 | - | - |
ankylose | 15 | undergo ankylosis | joints ankylose |
annalise | 8 | - | - |
annalist | 8 | a historian who writes annals | - |
annalize | 17 | - | - |
annattas | 8 | - | - |
annattos | 8 | - | - |
annealed | 9 | - | - |
annealer | 8 | - | - |
annelids | 9 | - | - |
annexing | 16 | - | - |
annexion | 15 | - | - |
annexure | 15 | - | - |
annicuts | 10 | - | - |
annoyers | 11 | - | - |
annulars | 8 | - | - |
annulate | 8 | shaped like a ring | - |
annulets | 8 | - | - |
annulose | 8 | - | - |
anobiids | 11 | - | - |
anodally | 12 | - | - |
anodised | 10 | - | - |
anodiser | 9 | - | - |
anodises | 9 | - | - |
anodized | 19 | - | - |
anodizer | 18 | - | - |
anodizes | 18 | - | - |
anodynes | 12 | - | - |
anodynic | 14 | - | - |
anoestra | 8 | - | - |
anoestri | 8 | - | - |
anointed | 9 | - | - |
anointer | 8 | one who anoints as a religious ceremony | - |
anolytes | 11 | - | - |
anonymas | 13 | - | - |
anoopsia | 10 | - | - |
anopsias | 10 | - | - |
anoretic | 10 | - | - |
anorthic | 13 | having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles | - |
anosmias | 10 | - | - |
anourous | 8 | - | - |
anovular | 11 | - | - |
anoxemia | 17 | abnormally low oxygen content in arterial blood | - |
anoxemic | 19 | relating to or marked by abnormally little oxygen in arterial blood | - |
ansatzes | 17 | - | - |
anserine | 8 | having or revealing stupidity | ridiculous anserine behavior |
anserous | 8 | - | - |
answered | 12 | - | - |
answerer | 11 | someone who responds | - |
antacids | 11 | - | - |
antalgic | 11 | - | - |
antbears | 10 | - | - |
antbirds | 11 | - | - |
antecede | 11 | be earlier in time; go back further | - |
antedate | 9 | establish something as being earlier relative to something else | - |
antefixa | 18 | - | - |
antenati | 8 | - | - |
antennal | 8 | of or relating to antennae | antennal senses of insects |
antepast | 10 | - | - |
antetype | 13 | - | - |
antevert | 11 | - | - |
anthelia | 11 | - | - |
anthelix | 18 | - | - |
anthemed | 14 | - | - |
anthemia | 13 | - | - |
anthemic | 15 | - | - |
anthemis | 13 | dog fennel | - |
antheral | 11 | capable of fertilizing female organs | - |
antherid | 12 | - | - |
antheses | 11 | - | - |
anthesis | 11 | the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | - |
anthills | 11 | - | - |
anthodia | 12 | - | - |
antiacne | 10 | - | - |
antiarin | 8 | - | - |
antiatom | 10 | - | - |
antibias | 10 | - | - |
antiboss | 10 | - | - |
anticise | 10 | - | - |
anticity | 13 | - | - |
anticize | 19 | - | - |
anticked | 15 | - | - |
antickes | 14 | - | - |
anticold | 11 | - | - |
anticous | 10 | - | - |
anticult | 10 | - | - |
antidora | 9 | - | - |
antidune | 9 | - | - |
antients | 8 | - | - |
antifoam | 13 | - | - |
antigang | 10 | - | - |
antigene | 9 | - | - |
antigens | 9 | - | - |
antiking | 13 | - | - |
antileak | 12 | - | - |
antileft | 11 | - | - |
antilife | 11 | - | - |
antilock | 14 | - | - |
antilogs | 9 | - | - |
antilogy | 12 | - | - |
antimale | 10 | - | - |
antimask | 14 | - | - |
antimere | 10 | - | - |
antimine | 10 | - | - |
antimuon | 10 | the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino | - |
antinode | 9 | (physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system | - |
antinome | 10 | - | - |
antinuke | 12 | - | - |
antiphon | 13 | a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | - |
antipill | 10 | - | - |
antipode | 11 | direct opposite | quiet: an antipode to focused busyness |
antipole | 10 | - | - |
antipope | 12 | someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected | the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism |
antiporn | 10 | - | - |
antipyic | 15 | - | - |
antiqued | 18 | - | - |
antiquer | 17 | - | - |
antiques | 17 | - | - |
antiquey | 20 | - | - |
antirape | 10 | - | - |
antiriot | 8 | - | - |
antirock | 14 | - | - |
antiroll | 8 | - | - |
antirust | 8 | - | - |
antisera | 8 | - | - |
antiship | 13 | - | - |
antiskid | 13 | - | - |
antislip | 10 | - | - |
antismog | 11 | - | - |
antismut | 10 | - | - |
antisnob | 10 | - | - |
antispam | 12 | - | - |
antistat | 8 | - | - |
antithet | 11 | - | - |
antitype | 13 | an opposite or contrasting type | - |
antiwear | 11 | - | - |
antiweed | 12 | - | - |
antlered | 9 | having antlers | - |
antliate | 8 | - | - |
antlions | 8 | - | - |
antonyms | 13 | - | - |
antonymy | 16 | the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings | - |
antpitta | 10 | - | - |
antrorse | 8 | bent or curved forward or upward | a plant having antrorse hairs on the stem |
antsiest | 8 | - | - |
anureses | 8 | - | - |
anuresis | 8 | inability to urinate | - |
anuretic | 10 | of or relating to an inability to urinate | - |
anviling | 12 | - | - |
anvilled | 12 | - | - |
anviltop | 13 | - | - |