9-letter words containing c, a, t
- appentice — penthouse (def 4).
- appetence — a natural craving or desire
- appetency — a strong desire; craving; appetite
- applecart — a cart or barrow from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
- applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.
- applicate — applied practicably
- apreciate — Misspelling of appreciate.
- aquabatic — of or relating to gymnastic feats that are performed in water
- aqueducts — Plural form of aqueduct.
- aracatuba — a city in SE Brazil.
- arc light — Arc lights are a type of very bright electric light.
- archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
- archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
- archilute — Alternative form of archlute.
- architect — An architect is a person who designs buildings.
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
- archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
- archontic — relating to an archon
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcminute — unit of angular measurement, 1⁄60 of a degree
- arctogaea — a zoogeographical area comprising the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Oriental, and Ethiopian regions
- arcturian — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Boötes.
- arcuately — In an arcuate way.
- arcuation — the use of arches or vaults in buildings
- arhythmic — Having no rhythm.
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
- aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- artefacts — Plural form of artefact.
- arthritic — Arthritic is used to describe the condition, the pain, or the symptoms of arthritis.
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- articling — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- articular — of or relating to joints or to the structural components in a joint
- artifacts — Plural form of artifact.
- artifical — Misspelling of artificial.
- artificer — a skilled craftsman
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- ascetical — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- ascii art — (graphics) (Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+"). See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O L )||( | | | C U A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T C N )||( | | | | P E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U )||( | | | GND T o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+ A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit Figure 1. And here are some very silly examples: +--------------------------------------------------------+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +--------------------------------------------------------+ "A Bee in the Carrot Patch" Figure 3. Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- asemantic — not semantic
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect