9-letter words containing a, g, i
- assailing — to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
- assenting — Present participle of assent.
- asserting — Present participle of assert.
- assessing — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
- assignees — Plural form of assignee.
- assigners — Plural form of assigner.
- assigning — Present participle of assign.
- assisting — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assoiling — Present participle of assoil.
- assorting — Present participle of assort.
- assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- astonying — Present participle of astony.
- astragali — Plural form of astragalus.
- astrangia — a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- astroglia — The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- atomizing — Present participle of atomize.
- atoningly — in an expiating manner
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- attacking — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- attaining — to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attingent — touching; in contact.
- attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
- au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- audiology — the scientific study of hearing, often including the treatment of persons with hearing defects
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- ausgleich — the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- avocating — Present participle of avocate.
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
- azotizing — Present participle of azotize.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne