9-letter words containing a, t, o, r
- adorement — (obsolete) The act of adoring; adoration.
- adornment — An adornment is something that is used to make a person or thing more beautiful.
- adsorbant — Adsorbent.
- adsorbate — a substance that has been or is to be adsorbed on a surface
- adsorbent — capable of adsorption
- adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
- advocater — Alternative form of advocator.
- advocator — a person who advocates
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aegrotats — Plural form of aegrotat.
- aerobatic — (used with a plural verb) stunts performed in flight by an airplane, glider, or the like.
- aerobiont — an organism that requires oxygen to survive
- aerolites — Plural form of aerolite.
- aerometer — an instrument for determining the mass or density of a gas, esp air
- aerometry — an instrument for determining the weight, density, etc., of air or other gases.
- aeromotor — an engine that powers an aircraft
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aerophoto — aerial photograph.
- aerophyte — epiphyte.
- aerostats — Plural form of aerostat.
- aerotaxis — the movement of organisms towards or away from oxygen caused by changes in oxygen concentration
- aerotrain — a high-speed train driven by a fan jet engine
- affordeth — Archaic third-person singular form of afford.
- afforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of afforest.
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- aforetime — formerly
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- afterbody — any discarded part that continues to trail a satellite, rocket, etc, in orbit
- afterglow — The afterglow is the glow that remains after a light has gone, for example after the sun has gone down.
- afterload — (physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force.
- aftermost — closer or closest to the rear or (in a vessel) the stern; last
- afternoon — The afternoon is the part of each day which begins at lunchtime and ends at about six o'clock.
- aftershow — a party held after a public performance of a play or film
- afterword — An afterword is a short essay at the end of a book, usually written by the author.
- afterwork — outside work hours; taking place or done after one's regular job is finished.
- 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
- 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.
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- agterskot — the final payment to a farmer for crops
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- 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 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
- airworthy — If an aircraft is airworthy, it is safe to fly.
- albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath