9-letter words containing a, d, r
- advertent — paying attention; heedful
- adverting — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advertise — If someone or something advertises a particular quality, they show it in their appearance or behaviour.
- advertize — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advocater — Alternative form of advocator.
- advocator — a person who advocates
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aerodrome — An aerodrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- affoorded — Simple past tense and past participle of affoord.
- affordeth — Archaic third-person singular form of afford.
- affording — to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- affrended — brought back into friendship
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- aforesaid — Aforesaid means the same as aforementioned.
- aforesayd — Obsolete spelling of aforesaid.
- afterbody — any discarded part that continues to trail a satellite, rocket, etc, in orbit
- afterdamp — a poisonous mixture of gases containing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen formed after the explosion of firedamp in coal mines
- afterdeck — the unprotected deck behind the bridge of a ship
- afterload — (physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force.
- afterward — If you do something or if something happens afterward, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterword — An afterword is a short essay at the end of a book, usually written by the author.
- aggressed — to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.
- aggrieved — If you feel aggrieved, you feel upset and angry because of the way in which you have been treated.
- agrodolce — an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, made with onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, sugar, and raisins
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air drill — a drill powered by compressed air.
- air medal — a U.S. military decoration awarded for meritorious achievement during participation in aerial operations
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- air-dried — preserved by exposing to the air and allowing to dry
- airdromes — Plural form of airdrome.
- airfields — Plural form of airfield.
- airheaded — Slang. a scatterbrained, stupid, or simple-minded person; dolt.
- airlifted — Simple past tense and past participle of airlift.
- airmailed — Simple past tense and past participle of airmail.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- alarmedly — in an alarmed manner
- aldebaran — a binary star, one component of which is a red giant, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. It appears in the sky close to the star cluster Hyades. Visual magnitude: 0.85; spectral type: K5III; distance: 65 light years
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- alder fly — any of several dark-colored neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae, the larvae of which are aquatic and predacious on other aquatic insects.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alexander — Harold (Rupert Leofric George), Earl Alexander of Tunis. 1891–1969, British field marshal in World War II, who organized the retreat from Dunkirk and commanded in North Africa (1943) and Sicily and Italy (1944–45); governor general of Canada (1946–52); British minister of defence (1952–54)
- alexandra — 1844–1925, queen consort of Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland
- all-dayer — an entertainment, such as a pop concert or film screening, that lasts all day
- all-fired — excessive; extreme
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- almodóvar — Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- amaritude — Bitterness.