9-letter words containing a, t, r, c
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
- surf-cast — to fish by casting into the surf from or near the shore
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- tachogram — the record produced by the action of a tachometer.
- tack room — a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
- tackboard — a large board, usually made of cork or soft wood, on which notices can be tacked.
- tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
- take care — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- taraxacum — the dried roots of any of several composite plants of the genus Taraxacum, as the dandelion, T. officinale or T. laevigatum, used in medicine in powdered or fluidextract form chiefly as a tonic and aperient.
- tarriance — delay.
- tau cross — a T -shaped cross.
- teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- terracing — a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- tesseract — the generalization of a cube to four dimensions.
- test card — a complex pattern used to test the characteristics of a television transmission system
- tetracene — naphthacene.
- tetrarchy — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
- thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
- the races — a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- theatrics — (used with a singular verb) the art of staging plays and other stage performances.
- theocracy — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
- thick ear — a blow on the ear delivered as punishment, in anger, etc
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- tide race — a fast-running tidal current
- tiger cat — any of several felines, as the ocelot or margay, that resemble the tiger in coloration or ferocity but are smaller.
- timocracy — a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- toe crack — a sand crack on the front of the hoof of a horse.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- toxocaral — of or relating to a toxocara
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- traceable — capable of being traced.