9-letter words containing a, s, o
- aftershow — a party held after a public performance of a play or film
- aggressor — The aggressor in a fight or battle is the person, group, or country that starts it.
- agitators — a person who stirs up others in order to upset the status quo and further a political, social, or other cause: The boss said he would fire any union agitators.
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- agterskot — the final payment to a farmer for crops
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- air corps — (before July 26, 1947) a branch of the U.S. Army concerned with military aviation.
- air frost — the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°C
- air hoist — a pneumatic hoist.
- air scoop — a device fitted to the surface of an aircraft to provide air pressure or ventilation from the airflow
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- airdromes — Plural form of airdrome.
- akmolinsk — former name of Akmola.
- akoluthos — the title of a commander of a regiment in the Byzantine Varangian Guard
- al fresco — out-of-doors; in the open air: to dine alfresco.
- alabastos — alabastron.
- alalagmos — a war-cry used by the ancient Greeks, said to have been invented by Pan
- albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
- albinoism — Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- alfonso i — (Alfonso Henriques) 1109?–85, first king of Portugal 1139–85.
- alfonso v — 1432–81, king of Portugal 1438–81.
- alfonso x — ("Alfonso the Wise") 1221–84, king of Castile 1252–84.
- algol 68s — (language) A subset of ALGOL 68 allowing simpler compilation, intended mainly for numerical computation. It was rewritten in BLISS for the PDP-11, and later in Pascal. It is available as shareware from Charles Lindsey <[email protected]>. Version 2.3 runs on Sun-3 under SunOS 4.x and Atari under GEMDOS (or potentially other computers supported by the Amsterdam Compiler Kit).
- alkaloids — Plural form of alkaloid.
- alkalosis — an abnormal increase in the alkalinity of the blood and extracellular fluids
- alkoxides — Plural form of alkoxide.
- 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 sorts — All sorts of things or people means a large number of different things or people.
- all-overs — a general feeling of unease and nervousness throughout the body (usually preceded by the).
- allantois — a membranous sac growing out of the ventral surface of the hind gut of embryonic reptiles, birds, and mammals. It combines with the chorion to form the mammalian placenta
- allcomers — all people who want to compete, join or take part, esp in a sporting event, as opposed to members of a specific group
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- alloplasm — part of the cytoplasm that is specialized to form cilia, flagella, and similar structures
- allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- almswoman — a woman who gives or receives alms
- aloeswood — agalloch.