9-letter words containing a, c, t
- 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.
- affecters — to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation.
- 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
- aftercare — Aftercare is the nursing and care of people who have been treated in hospital, and who are now recovering.
- aftercast — a casting made from a mold that was itself made from an original casting.
- afterclap — an unexpected, usually unwanted, repercussion of or sequel to an affair which had been thought to be closed
- afterdeck — the unprotected deck behind the bridge of a ship
- 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.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- albinotic — of or relating to albinism.
- albitical — related to or formed of albite
- alcántara — a town in W Spain: a Roman bridge spans the River Tagus. Pop: 1739 (2003 est)
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- 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
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- 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
- alley cat — An alley cat is a cat that lives in the streets of a town, is rather fierce, and is usually not owned by anyone.
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- allocated — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- allocator — anyone or anything that allocates something
- allotypic — relating to an allotype
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
- 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.