9-letter words containing a, d, u
- adoptious — adopted
- adstratum — a substratum or superstratum.
- aduantage — Obsolete spelling of advantage.
- adulating — Present participle of adulate.
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
- adultered — Simple past tense and past participle of adulter.
- adulterer — An adulterer is someone who commits adultery.
- adulthood — Adulthood is the state of being an adult.
- adultlike — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adultress — a female adulterer
- adumbrant — Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
- adumbrate — to outline; give a faint indication of
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aedoeagus — aedeagus.
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- aguadilla — a seaport in NW Puerto Rico.
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- aliquoted — Divided into, or distributed in aliquots.
- all found — with everything provided, such as food, electricity, heating and laundry, at no additional cost
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- amaritude — Bitterness.
- ambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of ambulate.
- ambuscade — an ambush
- ambuscado — an ambush
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- amputated — Simple past tense and past participle of amputate.
- amu darya — a river in central Asia, rising in the Pamirs and flowing northwest through the Hindu Kush and across Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to its delta in the Aral Sea: forms much of the N border of Afghanistan and is important for irrigation. Length: 2400 km (1500 miles)
- amygdules — Plural form of amygdule.
- anandrous — (of flowers) having no stamens
- and found — with room and board in addition to wages
- andalusia — a region of S Spain, on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, with the Sierra Morena in the north, the Sierra Nevada in the southeast, and the Guadalquivir River flowing over fertile lands between them; a centre of Moorish civilization; it became an autonomous region in 1981. Area: about 87 280 sq km (33 700 sq miles)
- andouille — a spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin
- androgeus — a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- anecdotum — (rare, Latinate) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- aneuploid — (of polyploid cells or organisms) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number, caused by one chromosome set being incomplete
- anguipede — a mythological creature of Persian origin with a rooster's head and snakes for legs
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- angulated — Simple past tense and past participle of angulate.
- anhungred — very hungry
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- announced — Simple past tense and past participle of announce.
- annulated — Having rings.