9-letter words containing a, c, t, e, s
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- 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.
- ascetical — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- asemantic — not semantic
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- 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)
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- at source — at the point of origin
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- autecious — autoecious
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- back rest — a support for the back of something
- back seat — a seat at the back, esp of a vehicle
- backbeats — Plural form of backbeat.
- backbites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- backrests — Plural form of backrest.
- backseats — Plural form of backseat.
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backswept — slanting backwards
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- bescatter — to scatter or strew about
- best-case — being the best that can possibly be expected; optimal
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bracelets — a slang name for handcuffs
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- busticate — to break
- cabernets — Plural form of cabernet.
- cablecast — the transmission of a TV programme via a cable system
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
- cacoethes — an uncontrollable urge or desire, esp for something harmful; mania
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland