9-letter words containing a, r, u
- adulterer — An adulterer is someone who commits adultery.
- adultress — a female adulterer
- adumbrant — Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
- adumbrate — to outline; give a faint indication of
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
- aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
- affixture — an affixing or being affixed
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- age group — An age group is the people in a place or organization who were born during a particular period of time, for example all the people aged between 18 and 25.
- age-group — persons of approximately the same age and often of the same sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- ahasuerus — a king of ancient Persia and husband of Esther, generally identified with Xerxes
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air gauge — a gauge for measuring air pressure.
- air route — a designated route for aircraft flying between particular ground locations at specified minimum altitudes.
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- airbursts — Plural form of airburst.
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- all fours — both the arms and legs of a person or all the legs of a quadruped (esp in the phrase on all fours)
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altruists — Plural form of altruist.
- alum rock — a town in W central California, near San Jose.
- alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
- amaritude — Bitterness.
- amaterasu — the Japanese Shinto goddess personifying the sun.
- amaurosis — blindness, esp when occurring without observable damage to the eye
- amaurotic — partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.
- ambulacra — Plural form of ambulacrum.
- ambulator — a person who walks
- americium — a white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. It is used as an alpha-particle source. Symbol: Am; atomic no: 95; half-life of most stable isotope, 243Am: 7.4 × 103 years; valency: 2,3,4,5, or 6; relative density: 13.67; melting pt: 1176°C; boiling pt: 2607°C (est)
- amorously — inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love: an amorous disposition.
- amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
- amourette — a brief affair or an affair that is insignificant to oneself
- amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
- ampullary — Of or pertaining to an ampulla.
- amu darya — a river in central Asia, rising in the Pamirs and flowing northwest through the Hindu Kush and across Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to its delta in the Aral Sea: forms much of the N border of Afghanistan and is important for irrigation. Length: 2400 km (1500 miles)
- anacruses — Plural form of anacrusis.
- anacrusis — one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse
- anandrous — (of flowers) having no stamens
- androgeus — a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- anestrous — not showing estrus.