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9-letter words containing a, s, r, i

  • asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
  • aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
  • aspergill — An aspergillum.
  • aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
  • aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
  • aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
  • aspirants — Plural form of aspirant.
  • aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
  • aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
  • aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity
  • assailers — Plural form of assailer.
  • asserting — Present participle of assert.
  • assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
  • assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
  • assigners — Plural form of assigner.
  • asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
  • assorting — Present participle of assort.
  • assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
  • asterisks — Plural form of asterisk.
  • asterisms — Plural form of asterism.
  • asterixis — (pathology) An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands.
  • asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
  • astragali — Plural form of astragalus.
  • astrangia — a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
  • astrantia — a hardy flowering plant from the genus Astrantia and family Apiaceae. It produces tiny flowers in the mid-summer months and dies back after flowering every year
  • astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
  • astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
  • astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
  • astroglia — The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
  • asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
  • atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
  • atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
  • atrahasis — a legendary Akkadian sage who built a boat in which he and his family, servants, and chattels escaped the Deluge.
  • atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • attainers — Plural form of attainer.
  • attornies — Plural form of attorny.
  • auditress — a female auditor
  • auriculas — Plural form of auricula.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
  • australia — a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
  • austrasia — the eastern region of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks that had its capital at Metz and lasted from 511 ad until 814 ad. It covered the area now comprising NE France, Belgium, and western Germany
  • autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
  • auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
  • auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
  • authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • authorish — like or similar to an author
  • authorism — the state or condition of being author
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