9-letter words containing a, n, o
- accordion — An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music.
- accosting — Present participle of accost.
- accounted — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- accounter — A person providing an account of events.
- accretion — An accretion is an addition to something, usually one that has been added over a period of time.
- ace point — the first point in backgammon.
- acesodyne — mitigating pain; anodyne.
- aciniform — shaped like a bunch of grapes
- aconcagua — a mountain in W Argentina: the highest peak in the Andes and in the W Hemisphere. Height: 6960 m (22 835 ft)
- aconitine — a poison extracted from aconite
- acorn cup — the woody cuplike base that holds the nut from an oak tree
- acrodonts — Plural form of acrodont.
- acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
- acronical — happening at sunset, as the rising of a star
- acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acronymic — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
- actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
- actionary — (business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- actioning — Present participle of action.
- actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action
- actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acupoints — Plural form of acupoint.
- acylation — the introduction into a chemical compound of an acyl group
- adaptions — the act of adapting.
- adaptogen — any of various natural substances used in herbal medicine to normalize and regulate the systems of the body
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- addington — Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. 1757–1844, British statesman; prime minister (1801–04) and Home Secretary (1812–21)
- additions — Plural form of addition.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- ademption — the failure of a specific legacy, as by a testator disposing of the subject matter in his lifetime
- adenoidal — having the nasal tones or impaired breathing of one with enlarged adenoids
- adenology — the branch of medicine dealing with the development, structure, function, and diseases of glands.
- adenomata — a benign tumor originating in a secretory gland.
- adenosine — a nucleoside formed by the condensation of adenine and ribose. It is present in all living cells in a combined form, as in ribonucleic acids. Formula: C10H13N5O4
- adenotomy — (anatomy) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
- adhesions — Plural form of adhesion.
- adipokine — (biochemistry) Any of several cytokines secreted by adipose tissue.
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjoining — being in contact; connected or neighbouring
- adjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- admission — Admission is permission given to a person to enter a place, or permission given to a country to enter an organization. Admission is also the act of entering a place.
- admonitor — a person who admonishes
- adnominal — a word modifying a noun
- adon olam — a liturgical prayer or hymn expressing the faith of Israel in God, often sung in unison usually at the close of a service.
- adoptions — Plural form of adoption.
- adorating — Present participle of adorate.
- adoration — Adoration is a feeling of great admiration and love for someone or something.