9-letter words containing a, e, s
- abstinent — forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- abstruser — (rare) Comparative form of abstruse.
- abusement — Abuse; one or many acts of abuse.
- abusively — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- abutments — Plural form of abutment.
- academese — pedantic, pretentious, and often confusing academic jargon: a presumably scholarly article written in incomprehensible academese.
- academics — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- academies — Plural form of academy.
- academise — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- academism — academicism.
- academist — a person belonging to an academy or society, usually of science, art or literature
- acathexis — (pathology) The loss of the ability to respond emotionally.
- accension — the state of being ignited or the act of igniting
- accepters — Plural form of accepter.
- acceptors — Plural form of acceptor.
- accessary — accessory
- accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accession — Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country.
- accessive — Misspelling of excessive.
- accessors — Plural form of accessor.
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- accessway — a path, route, etc., that provides access to a specific destination or property, as to a public beach or state park.
- accidents — Plural form of accident.
- accolades — Plural form of accolade.
- accorders — Plural form of accorder.
- accoutres — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accoutre.
- accredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accredit.
- accresced — Simple past tense and past participle of accresce.
- accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
- accusable — having liability to be blamed or accused
- acerbates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acerbate.
- acervulus — a small, asexual spore-producing structure produced by certain parasitic fungi on a host plant
- acescence — The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
- acesodyne — mitigating pain; anodyne.
- acetifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acetify.
- achievers — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- achimenes — any plant of the tropical S American tuberous-rooted perennial genus Achimenes, with showy red, blue, or white tubular flowers, some of which are grown as greenhouse plants: family Gesneriaceae
- acid test — The acid test of something is an important aspect or result that it might have, which allows you to decide whether it is true or successful.
- acidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidify.
- acidities — Plural form of acidity.
- acquiesce — If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
- acquirers — Plural form of acquirer.
- acquisite — (obsolete) acquired.
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acrolects — Plural form of acrolect.
- 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.
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.