9-letter words containing c, s, r
- 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
- 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.
- 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:
- ascocarps — Plural form of ascocarp.
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- ascospore — one of the spores (usually eight in number) that are produced in an ascus
- ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
- ash color — ash gray.
- asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- at source — at the point of origin
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- attackers — Plural form of attacker.
- auriculas — Plural form of auricula.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- avascular — (of certain tissues, such as cartilage) lacking blood vessels
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- back rest — a support for the back of something
- backcross — to mate (a hybrid of the first generation) with one of its parents
- backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backrests — Plural form of backrest.
- backroads — Plural form of backroad.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- backstrap — A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
- backsword — a person who uses the backsword
- backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
- backwords — Plural form of backword.
- backyards — Plural form of backyard.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.
- bar snack — a light quick meal, such as a sandwich or pie, served in a bar
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barbecues — Plural form of barbecue.
- barbicels — Plural form of barbicel.
- barnacles — nose pincers for controlling an unruly horse
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere