9-letter words containing a, e, o
- accolated — (of portraits on a coin, medal, or escutcheon) overlapping and facing in the same direction; conjoined.
- accorders — Plural form of accorder.
- accounted — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- accounter — A person providing an account of events.
- accourage — to give encouragement to
- accoutred — equipped or dressed in a particular way
- accoutres — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accoutre.
- accretion — An accretion is an addition to something, usually one that has been added over a period of time.
- accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
- ace point — the first point in backgammon.
- acesodyne — mitigating pain; anodyne.
- acetaldol — aldol (def 1).
- acetyloxy — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) The radical CH3COO-, common to acetate esters, when used as a substituent.
- achromate — a person unable to perceive color.
- aconitine — a poison extracted from aconite
- acre-foot — the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot: equivalent to 43 560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic metres
- acrodrome — (of the veins of a leaf) running parallel to the edges of the leaf and fusing at the tip
- acrolects — Plural form of acrolect.
- acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acropetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the base upwards so that the youngest are at the apex
- acrophobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of heights
- acrosomes — Plural form of acrosome.
- acrospire — the first shoot developing from the plumule of a germinating grain seed
- acrospore — a spore borne at the tip of a sporophore, as a basidiospore.
- acroteria — acroters
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- acusector — a needle for cutting tissue by means of a high-frequency electric current.
- adaptogen — any of various natural substances used in herbal medicine to normalize and regulate the systems of the body
- adderwort — the bistort, a herbaceous flowering plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the dock family
- addressor — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- ademption — the failure of a specific legacy, as by a testator disposing of the subject matter in his lifetime
- adenoidal — having the nasal tones or impaired breathing of one with enlarged adenoids
- adenology — the branch of medicine dealing with the development, structure, function, and diseases of glands.
- adenomata — a benign tumor originating in a secretory gland.
- adenosine — a nucleoside formed by the condensation of adenine and ribose. It is present in all living cells in a combined form, as in ribonucleic acids. Formula: C10H13N5O4
- adenotomy — (anatomy) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
- adeodatus — Saint, died a.d. 676, pope 672–676.
- adhesions — Plural form of adhesion.
- adipocere — a waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adipokine — (biochemistry) Any of several cytokines secreted by adipose tissue.
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- ado-ekiti — a town in SE Nigeria.
- adobelike — made using a material similar to adobe
- adoptable — able to be adopted
- adorement — (obsolete) The act of adoring; adoration.
- adorkable — socially inept or unfashionable in a charming or endearing way
- adornment — An adornment is something that is used to make a person or thing more beautiful.
- adsorbate — a substance that has been or is to be adsorbed on a surface