9-letter words containing a, n, s, e
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- asyndesis — (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athelstan — ?895–939 ad, king of Wessex and Mercia (924–939 ad), who extended his kingdom to include most of England
- athenaeus — late 2nd century a.d, Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- atjehnese — a member of an indigenous Muslim people of northernmost Sumatra.
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- 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.
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- 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
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- awakeness — The quality or state of being awake.
- awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- azureness — The quality of being azure in colour.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- balkanise — to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
- balkiness — The state or quality of being balky.
- balklines — Plural form of balkline.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- balminess — mild and refreshing; soft; soothing: balmy weather.
- banda sea — a part of the Pacific in Indonesia, between Sulawesi and New Guinea