8-Letter Words Ending: NTS

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

• mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox

• hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs

• Any portion taken from a plant or an animal that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot, or of the leaves, or even just some cells.

• a substance that oxidizes another substance

• The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.

• (of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.

• (of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.

• A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.

• A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.

• An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.

• An assistant mayor of a French commune.

• To dislocate.

• To disjoint.

• a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask

• a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks

• a sum of money paid or a claim discharged

• the act of paying money

• an act of requiting; returning in kind

• a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees

• a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant