9-letter words containing a, c, r, s
- air stack — stack (def 13).
- airbricks — Plural form of airbrick.
- aircrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of aircraft.
- airscrews — Plural form of airscrew.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- al fresco — out-of-doors; in the open air: to dine alfresco.
- albricias — an expression of joy
- algeciras — a port and resort in SW Spain, on the Strait of Gibraltar: scene of a conference of the Great Powers in 1906. Pop: 108 779 (2003 est)
- allcomers — all people who want to compete, join or take part, esp in a sporting event, as opposed to members of a specific group
- ambrosiac — Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anacruses — Plural form of anacrusis.
- anacrusis — one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse
- anarchies — Plural form of anarchy.
- anarchise — make anarchic
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- ancestors — Plural form of ancestor.
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anorexics — Plural form of anorexic.
- arachnids — Plural form of arachnid.
- arccosine — the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between 0 and π), the cosine of which is that argument: the inverse of the cosine function
- archaisms — Plural form of archaism.
- archaizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archaize.
- archdukes — Plural form of archduke.
- archeress — a female archer
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
- archosaur — any of a group of reptiles consisting of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, modern birds, modern crocodiles and extinct relatives of crocodiles, all having a diapsid skull
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- armchairs — Plural form of armchair.
- armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
- arms race — An arms race is a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- arsaces i — founder of the Parthian empire c250 b.c.
- arsenical — of or containing arsenic
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- artefacts — Plural form of artefact.
- artifacts — Plural form of artifact.
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
- ascenders — Plural form of ascender.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist