9-letter words containing a, c, s, e
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acrolects — Plural form of acrolect.
- acrosomes — Plural form of acrosome.
- acrospire — the first shoot developing from the plumule of a germinating grain seed
- acrospore — a spore borne at the tip of a sporophore, as a basidiospore.
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- activates — to make active; cause to function or act.
- actresses — Plural form of actress.
- actualise — to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.
- actuaries — Plural form of actuary.
- acusector — a needle for cutting tissue by means of a high-frequency electric current.
- acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- adnascent — growing on or to something else
- advancers — Plural form of advancer.
- advocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate.
- aeroscope — a device that collects bacteria from the air, used for observing the atmosphere
- aerospace — Aerospace companies are involved in developing and making rockets, missiles, space vehicles, and related equipment.
- aeschines — ?389–?314 bc, Athenian orator; the main political opponent of Demosthenes
- aeschylus — ?525–?456 bc, Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, Prometheus Bound, and the trilogy of the Oresteia
- aesthetic — Aesthetic is used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things.
- affecters — to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation.
- affiances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affiance.
- aftercast — a casting made from a mold that was itself made from an original casting.
- agelastic — never laughing; mirthless
- air space — a space occupied by air.
- airscrews — Plural form of airscrew.
- al fresco — out-of-doors; in the open air: to dine alfresco.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- alchemies — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- 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)
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.
- allcomers — all people who want to compete, join or take part, esp in a sporting event, as opposed to members of a specific group
- alliances — Plural form of alliance.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- allspices — Plural form of allspice.
- ambuscade — an ambush
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.
- anacruses — Plural form of anacrusis.
- analgesic — An analgesic drug reduces the effect of pain.
- anapestic — a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
- anarchies — Plural form of anarchy.
- anarchise — make anarchic
- 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.