9-letter words containing c, n, s
- anarchise — make anarchic
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- ancestors — Plural form of ancestor.
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- anchovies — Plural form of anchovy.
- anchylose — ankylose
- andesitic — relating to, or containing, andesite
- androcles — (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anecdotes — a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.
- anecdysis — the period between moults in arthropods
- anelastic — relating to anelasticity
- angelicas — Plural form of angelica.
- anglicise — (transitive) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
- anglicism — a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England
- anglicist — an expert in or student of English literature or language
- aniconism — the belief in not using or worshipping images of deities
- aniconist — a believer or follower of aniconism
- animatics — Plural form of animatic.
- animistic — the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
- announces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of announce.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anorexics — Plural form of anorexic.
- anschluss — a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)
- antecedes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antecede.
- anticaste — Lb sociology Opposing the social system of caste.
- anticosti — an island of E Canada, in the Gulf of St Lawrence; part of Quebec. Area: 7881 sq km (3043 sq miles)
- antimusic — any form of music intended to overthrow traditional conventions and expectations
- antiochus — name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria
- antiscian — relating to a person living on the other side of the equator at the same meridian
- antishock — designed to reduce the force of impact
- antistick — acting to prevent adhesion
- antonescu — Ion. 1882–1946, Romanian general and statesman; appointed prime minister (1940) by King Carol II. He was executed for war crimes
- apneustic — of or relating to apneusis
- arachnids — Plural form of arachnid.
- arccosine — the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between 0 and π), the cosine of which is that argument: the inverse of the cosine function
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy
- arsenical — of or containing arsenic
- 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.
- ascenders — Plural form of ascender.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- ascending — If a group of things is arranged in ascending order, each thing is bigger, greater, or more important than the thing before it.
- ascension — In some religions, when someone goes to heaven, you can refer to their ascension to heaven.
- ascensive — having the propensity to move in an upwards direction
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- ascidians — Plural form of ascidian.