9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, s, t
- astrogate — (science fiction, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.
- astrolabe — an instrument used by early astronomers to measure the altitude of stars and planets and also as a navigational aid. It consists of a graduated circular disc with a movable sighting device
- at source — at the point of origin
- atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- coruscate — to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- cottagers — Plural form of cottager.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- del sarto — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- derogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derogate.
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolator — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.