9-letter words containing a, c, t, i
- aerobatic — (used with a plural verb) stunts performed in flight by an airplane, glider, or the like.
- aesthetic — Aesthetic is used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things.
- affecting — If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- affective — relating to affects
- afflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- afflicter — a person who causes distress, torment, or affliction
- affricate — a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point, such as the sound written ch, as in chair
- agalactia — absence or failure of secretion of milk
- agelastic — never laughing; mirthless
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agnatical — relating to agnates
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- ailanthic — of or relating to the ailanthus tree
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air stack — stack (def 13).
- aircrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of aircraft.
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akathisic — Relating to, or exhibiting, akathisia.
- albinotic — of or relating to albinism.
- albitical — related to or formed of albite
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- aliphatic — (of an organic compound) not aromatic, esp having an open chain structure, such as alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
- aliteracy — the state or quality of being able but disinclined to read
- alkalotic — characterized by alkalosis
- allantoic — of or in the allantois
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- allotypic — relating to an allotype
- altricial — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) naked, blind, and dependent on the parents for food
- amaurotic — partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- ametropic — relating to ametropia
- ammonitic — Relating to, or containing, ammonites.
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- anabiotic — a bringing back to consciousness; reanimation after apparent death.
- anacidity — the abnormal absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- anaclitic — of or relating to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on others or another
- anacostia — a section of the District of Columbia, in the SE part.
- analeptic — (of a drug, etc) stimulating the central nervous system
- analgetic — a painkilling drug
- analytics — the part of logic having to do with analyzing
- 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.
- anaptotic — (of languages) tending to become uninflected, in accordance with a theory that languages evolve from uninflected to inflected and back.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anarthric — relating to anarthria