8-Letter Words Containing: A,I,S,S,S

• a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

• handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark

• a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

• the sail above the royal on a square-rigger

• the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis

• Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer

• any expected deliverer

• the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people

• an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742