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There are 17 eight-letter words ending with NANT

ABSONANT• absonant adj. (Now rare) Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.
• ABSONANT adj. discordant; abhorrent.
ASSONANT• assonant adj. (Prosody) Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
• ASSONANT adj. corresponding in vowel sound, also ASSONANTAL.
• ASSONANT n. a word or syllable that resembles another in sound.
COTENANT• cotenant n. (Property law) A person who shares a tenancy with another; a co-owner of an interest in property.
• COTENANT n. a joint tenant.
COVENANT• covenant n. (Law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
• covenant n. (Law) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
• covenant n. A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
DOMINANT• dominant n. (Music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus…
• dominant n. (Music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
• dominant n. (Genetics) A gene that is dominant.
LUMINANT• luminant adj. That illuminates; luminous.
• luminant n. An illuminating agent.
• LUMINANT n. a means of lighting.
ORDINANT• ordinant n. (Obsolete) One who ordains.
• ordinant adj. Ordaining; decreeing.
• ORDINANT n. one who ordains.
PLAINANT• plainant n. (Law, obsolete) One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
• PLAINANT n. one who makes complaint; a plaintiff.
POIGNANT• poignant adj. (Obsolete, of a weapon, etc.) Sharp-pointed; keen.
• poignant adj. Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
• poignant adj. Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
PREGNANT• pregnant adj. (Chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
• pregnant adj. (Comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
• pregnant adj. (Poetic) Fertile, prolific (Usually of soil, ground, etc.).
RESONANT• resonant adj. Resounding, echoing.
• resonant adj. (Electrical, of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced…
• resonant n. (Phonetics) A sonorant vowel or consonant.
REVENANT• revenant n. Someone who returns from a long absence.
• revenant n. A person or thing reborn.
• revenant n. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
RUMINANT• ruminant adj. Chewing cud.
• ruminant adj. Pondering; ruminative.
• ruminant n. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
SETENANT• setenant n. Alternative form of se-tenant.
• se-tenant n. (Philately) A set of postage stamps with differing values, colours, etc, but printed on the same sheet.
• SETENANT n. (French) in philately, two or more stamps joined together in an unsevered block of which at least one differs in design and value from the others.
STAGNANT• stagnant adj. Lacking freshness, motion, or flow; decaying through stillness.
• stagnant adj. (Figurative) Without progress or change; stale; inactive.
• STAGNANT adj. like still and often foul water.
UNTENANT• untenant v. (Transitive) To remove a tenant from.
• UNTENANT v. to deprive of a tenant.
VAGINANT• vaginant adj. (Botany) Serving as a sheathe.
• VAGINANT adj. sheathing.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
Definitions are short excerpt from the WikWik.org and 1Word.ws.

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