8-Letter Words Containing: E,R,I,A,C,A

• a grotesque product of the imagination

• (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

• a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail

• an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

• a gallant or courtly gentleman

• a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War

• given to haughty disregard of others

• an event that departs from expectations

• discord that splits a group

• the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the quality of being subject to variation

• an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)

• an activity that varies from a norm or standard

• salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre

• give an archaic appearance of character to

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• extreme greed for material wealth