9-letter words containing a, c, t
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- 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)
- astucious — Subtle; cunning; astute.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asystolic — Pertaining to asystole.
- at a clip — If something moves or happens at a fast clip, it moves or happens quickly.
- 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
- atacamite — a mineral, green in colour, containing copper and present in Australia, Chile, and Cornwall
- ataractic — able to calm or tranquillize
- atavistic — Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
- athabasca — river rising in the Rocky Mountains of SW Alberta, Canada, and flowing northeast into Lake Athabasca: 765 mi (1,231 km)
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athematic — not based on themes
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atomicity — the state of being made up of atoms
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- atonicity — lack of tone; atony.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- attack ad — a public notice, such as a printed display or a short film on television, in which a political party criticizes or abuses an opponent
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- attacking — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- attackman — a player whose primary role is to attack
- 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.
- atypicals — Plural form of atypical.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- auctorial — of or relating to an author
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- autecious — autoecious
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- autistics — Plural form of autistic.
- autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
- autoclave — a strong sealed vessel used for chemical reactions at high pressure
- 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