9-letter words containing a, n, t, e, r
- armaments — Armaments are weapons and military equipment belonging to an army or country.
- arrantest — Superlative form of arrant.
- arrayment — the act of arraying
- arrestant — a substance that stops a chemical reaction
- arresting — attracting attention; striking
- arsenates — Plural form of arsenate.
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- arternoon — Eye dialect of afternoon.
- artsiness — the condition of being artsy or affectedly creative
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- asserting — Present participle of assert.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- attrahent — attracting or drawing in
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bank rate — The bank rate is the rate of interest at which a bank lends money, especially the minimum rate of interest that banks are allowed to charge, which is decided from time to time by the country's central bank.
- bannerets — Plural form of banneret.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- banqueter — A guest at a banquet.
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.