8-Letter Words Containing ATHO

• To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.

• To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.

• To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).

• A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.

• (by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.

• of or at or pertaining to a cathode

• a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed

• An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It usually, but not always, has a positive voltage.

• (by extension) The electrode at which chemical reduction of cations takes place, usually resulting in the deposition of metal onto the electrode.

• The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

• That electrode of a semiconductor device which is connected to the n-type material of a p-n junction.

• of or relating to or supporting Catholicism

• a member of a Catholic church

• free from provincial prejudices or attachments

• any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)