8-Letter Words Containing: AN_

• A situation in which a player is forced to make a disadvantageous move.

• In figurative uses

• A Jewish cantor in a synagogue.

• a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

• An infantry soldier, often of Christian descent and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826); by extension, any Turkish soldier, particularly one escorting a traveller.

• An elite, highly loyal supporter.

• a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits

• a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion

• approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values

• apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor

• (originally Ireland) To ruin or destroy.

• Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.

• Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.

• To preserve wood from decay by soaking it in a solution of mercuric chloride