9-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
- archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
- archilute — Alternative form of archlute.
- architect — An architect is a person who designs buildings.
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.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
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcminute — unit of angular measurement, 1⁄60 of a degree
- arctogaea — a zoogeographical area comprising the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Oriental, and Ethiopian regions
- arcturian — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Boötes.
- arcuately — In an arcuate way.
- arcuation — the use of arches or vaults in buildings
- arhythmic — Having no rhythm.
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- 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.
- aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- artefacts — Plural form of artefact.
- 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.
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
- 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:
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- at source — at the point of origin
- ataractic — able to calm or tranquillize
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- attracted — feeling a pleasing, alluring, or fascinating influence from someone or something
- attracter — to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel): The gravitational force of the earth attracts smaller bodies to it.
- attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
- auctorial — of or relating to an author
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
- autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car