8-Letter Words Ending: AINS

• make plain and comprehensible

• define

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers

• restrain or bind with chains

• remove the chains from

• make free

• the remains of a dead body after cremation

• an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant

• the naval officer in command of a military ship

• a policeman in charge of a precinct

• an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

• the leader of a group of people

• the pilot in charge of an airship

• a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers

• be the captain of a sports team

• any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria

• an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

• an advantageous purchase

• negotiate the terms of an exchange

• come to terms; arrive at an agreement