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9-letter words containing a, c, o, r

  • astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
  • at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
  • at source — at the point of origin
  • athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
  • atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
  • attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
  • auctorial — of or relating to an author
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • autocoder — (language)   Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
  • autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
  • autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
  • autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
  • autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
  • autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
  • autotruck — a motor truck.
  • avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
  • avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
  • ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
  • bacciform — shaped like a berry
  • bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
  • bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
  • back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
  • back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
  • back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
  • back room — a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
  • back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
  • backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
  • backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
  • backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
  • backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
  • backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
  • backroads — Plural form of backroad.
  • backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
  • backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
  • backround — Misspelling of background.
  • backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
  • backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
  • backsword — a person who uses the backsword
  • backwords — Plural form of backword.
  • bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
  • bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
  • bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
  • bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
  • baracaldo — city in The Basque Country, N Spain: pop. 105,000
  • barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
  • barcarole — a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar
  • barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)
  • barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
  • barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
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