9-letter words containing a, s
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- accessway — a path, route, etc., that provides access to a specific destination or property, as to a public beach or state park.
- accidents — Plural form of accident.
- acclivous — Sloping upward; rising like a hillside.
- accolades — Plural form of accolade.
- accorders — Plural form of accorder.
- accosting — Present participle of accost.
- accoutres — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accoutre.
- accredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accredit.
- accresced — Simple past tense and past participle of accresce.
- accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
- accusable — having liability to be blamed or accused
- accusably — in an accusable manner
- accustoms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accustom.
- acerbates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acerbate.
- acervulus — a small, asexual spore-producing structure produced by certain parasitic fungi on a host plant
- acescence — The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
- acesodyne — mitigating pain; anodyne.
- acetifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acetify.
- achalasia — failure of the cardiac sphincter of the oesophagus to relax, resulting in difficulty in swallowing
- achievers — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- achimenes — any plant of the tropical S American tuberous-rooted perennial genus Achimenes, with showy red, blue, or white tubular flowers, some of which are grown as greenhouse plants: family Gesneriaceae
- achromats — Plural form of achromat.
- achromous — Colorless; achromatic.
- acid dust — air-polluting particles of dust, usually wind-borne, having high concentrations of acid.
- acid salt — a salt formed by partial replacement of the acidic hydrogen atoms of the parent acid
- acid soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of below about 6, found esp in cool moist areas where soluble bases are leached away
- acid test — The acid test of something is an important aspect or result that it might have, which allows you to decide whether it is true or successful.
- acid-fast — (of bacteria and tissues) resistant to decolorization by mineral acids after staining
- acidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acidify.
- acidities — Plural form of acidity.
- acidulous — rather sour
- acoustics — the scientific study of sound and sound waves
- acquaints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquaint.
- acquiesce — If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
- acquirers — Plural form of acquirer.
- acquisite — (obsolete) acquired.
- acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
- acrodonts — Plural form of acrodont.
- acrolects — Plural form of acrolect.
- acroliths — Plural form of acrolith.
- acropolis — the citadel of an ancient Greek city
- acrosomal — relating to the acrosome
- acrosomes — Plural form of acrosome.
- acrospire — the first shoot developing from the plumule of a germinating grain seed
- acrospore — a spore borne at the tip of a sporophore, as a basidiospore.
- acrostics — Plural form of acrostic.
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action