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9-letter words containing a, c, r

  • articling — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • articular — of or relating to joints or to the structural components in a joint
  • artifacts — Plural form of artifact.
  • artifical — Misspelling of artificial.
  • artificer — a skilled craftsman
  • 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
  • ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
  • ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
  • ascii art — (graphics)   (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+"). See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O L )||( | | | C U A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T C N )||( | | | | P E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U )||( | | | GND T o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+ A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit Figure 1. And here are some very silly examples: +--------------------------------------------------------+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +--------------------------------------------------------+ "A Bee in the Carrot Patch" Figure 3. Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
  • ascocarps — Plural form of ascocarp.
  • ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
  • ascospore — one of the spores (usually eight in number) that are produced in an ascus
  • ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
  • ash color — ash gray.
  • asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
  • assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
  • astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
  • astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
  • 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
  • ataractic — able to calm or tranquillize
  • 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.
  • attackers — Plural form of attacker.
  • attracted — feeling a pleasing, alluring, or fascinating influence from someone or something
  • attracter — to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel): The gravitational force of the earth attracts smaller bodies to it.
  • attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
  • auctorial — of or relating to an author
  • auricular — of, relating to, or received by the sense or organs of hearing; aural
  • auriculas — Plural form of auricula.
  • auriculin — atrial natriuretic factor.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
  • 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.
  • avascular — (of certain tissues, such as cartilage) lacking blood vessels
  • aviatrice — a woman who is a pilot; aviator.
  • 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
  • avuncular — An avuncular man or a man with avuncular behaviour is friendly and helpful towards someone younger.
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