9-letter words containing a, i, s
- air frost — the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°C
- air hoist — a pneumatic hoist.
- air miles — Air miles are points that you collect when you buy certain goods or services and which you can use to pay for air travel.
- air scoop — a device fitted to the surface of an aircraft to provide air pressure or ventilation from the airflow
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air shaft — a shaft for ventilation, esp in a mine or tunnel
- air space — a space occupied by air.
- air spray — pertaining to compressed-air spraying devices or to liquids used in them.
- air stack — stack (def 13).
- air twist — a serpentine motif within the stem of a goblet, produced by extending and twisting an air bubble during glass blowing.
- air-slake — to slake (lime or the like) with moist air.
- air-spray — pertaining to compressed-air spraying devices or to liquids used in them.
- airbrakes — Plural form of airbrake.
- airbricks — Plural form of airbrick.
- airbursts — Plural form of airburst.
- aircrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of aircraft.
- airdromes — Plural form of airdrome.
- airfields — Plural form of airfield.
- airframes — Plural form of airframe.
- airliners — Plural form of airliner.
- airplanes — Plural form of airplane.
- airscrews — Plural form of airscrew.
- airstream — a wind, esp at a high altitude
- airstrike — a military attack involving aircraft
- airstrips — Plural form of airstrip.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- akathisia — the inability to sit still because of uncontrollable movement caused by reaction to drugs
- akathisic — Relating to, or exhibiting, akathisia.
- akmolinsk — former name of Akmola.
- al-ashari — Abu ʾl-Hasan [ah-boo al-ha-san] /ˈɑ bu æl hæˈsæn/ (Show IPA), a.d. c873–936, the formulator of the classical synthesis in Islamic philosophical theology known as Ashʿarism.
- alarmists — Plural form of alarmist.
- albinoism — Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
- albricias — an expression of joy
- albucasis — Abu al-Qāsim
- alchemies — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alchemise — to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- alcimedes — the mother of Jason.
- alexiares — a son of Hercules and Hebe.
- alexius i — (Alexius Comnenus) 1048-1118; emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1081-1118)
- alfonso i — (Alfonso Henriques) 1109?–85, first king of Portugal 1139–85.
- algeciras — a port and resort in SW Spain, on the Strait of Gibraltar: scene of a conference of the Great Powers in 1906. Pop: 108 779 (2003 est)
- algicides — Plural form of algicide.
- algidness — the state or quality of being algid
- alginates — Plural form of alginate.
- ali pasha — known as the Lion of Janina. 1741–1822, Turkish pasha and ruler of Albania (1787–1820), who was deposed and assassinated after intriguing against Turkey
- alienates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alienate.
- alienists — Plural form of alienist.
- alienness — the state or quality or being alien, foreign, or unfamiliar