8-Letter Words Containing: A,C,T,I,N,O,N,_

• formal and explicit approval

• a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards

• official permission or approval

• the act of final authorization

• give sanction to

• give authority or permission to

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• the state of being inactive

• A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.

• A continuous extent.

• The set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.

• A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1/100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

• any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103

• The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

• include or contain; have as a component

• contain or hold; have within

• lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits

• be divisible by

• be capable of holding or containing

• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

• pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism"

• a specialist in canon law