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9-letter words containing a, i, r, c

  • archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
  • archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
  • archontic — relating to an archon
  • archrival — a chief rival
  • arcminute — unit of angular measurement, 1⁄60 of a degree
  • arcturian — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Boötes.
  • arcuation — the use of arches or vaults in buildings
  • arecoline — a drug derived from betel nuts and producing a range of effects, including increased salivation, body temperature, and heart rate
  • areflexic — Lb pathology Exhibiting, or relating to, areflexia.
  • arhythmic — Having no rhythm.
  • aristarch — a severe critic.
  • armchairs — Plural form of armchair.
  • armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
  • armorican — a native or inhabitant of Armorica
  • aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
  • aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
  • arrivance — the action or state of arriving
  • arsaces i — founder of the Parthian empire c250 b.c.
  • arsenical — of or containing arsenic
  • art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
  • arthritic — Arthritic is used to describe the condition, the pain, or the symptoms of arthritis.
  • artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
  • articling — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • articular — of or relating to joints or to the structural components in a joint
  • artifacts — Plural form of artifact.
  • artifical — Misspelling of artificial.
  • artificer — a skilled craftsman
  • artifices — Plural form of artifice.
  • ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
  • ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
  • ascii art — (graphics)   (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+"). See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O L )||( | | | C U A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T C N )||( | | | | P E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U )||( | | | GND T o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+ A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit Figure 1. And here are some very silly examples: +--------------------------------------------------------+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +--------------------------------------------------------+ "A Bee in the Carrot Patch" Figure 3. Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
  • ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
  • asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
  • astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
  • ataractic — able to calm or tranquillize
  • atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
  • auctorial — of or relating to an author
  • auricular — of, relating to, or received by the sense or organs of hearing; aural
  • auriculas — Plural form of auricula.
  • auriculin — atrial natriuretic factor.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
  • autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
  • autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
  • aviatrice — a woman who is a pilot; aviator.
  • avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
  • avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
  • ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
  • bacciform — shaped like a berry
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