9-letter words containing e, a
- abstinent — forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- abstruser — (rare) Comparative form of abstruse.
- abundance — An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.
- abusement — Abuse; one or many acts of abuse.
- abusively — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- abutments — Plural form of abutment.
- academese — pedantic, pretentious, and often confusing academic jargon: a presumably scholarly article written in incomprehensible academese.
- academian — (historical, obsolete) A follower of w Plato. (Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.)Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- academics — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- academies — Plural form of academy.
- academise — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- academism — academicism.
- academist — a person belonging to an academy or society, usually of science, art or literature
- academize — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- acalephan — an acaleph
- acanthine — of or resembling an acanthus
- acanthite — the orthorhombic form of silver sulfide.
- acaricide — any drug or formulation for killing acarids
- acathexis — (pathology) The loss of the ability to respond emotionally.
- accademia — an art gallery in Venice housing a collection of paintings by Venetian masters from the 13th to 18th centuries
- accedence — to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
- accending — Present participle of accend.
- accension — the state of being ignited or the act of igniting
- accenting — prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
- accentual — of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic
- acceptant — receiving willingly; receptive
- accepters — Plural form of accepter.
- accepting — amenable; open: She was always more accepting of coaching suggestions than her teammates.
- acception — (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
- acceptive — ready or willing to accept
- acceptors — Plural form of acceptor.
- accessary — accessory
- accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accession — Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country.
- accessive — Misspelling of excessive.
- accessors — Plural form of accessor.
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- accessway — a path, route, etc., that provides access to a specific destination or property, as to a public beach or state park.
- accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
- accidents — Plural form of accident.
- accipiter — any hawk of the genus Accipiter, typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- acclaimed — publicly acknowledged as excellent
- acclaimer — One who acclaims.
- acclamate — (rare) To acclaim.
- acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- accoladed — any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
- accolades — Plural form of accolade.
- accolated — (of portraits on a coin, medal, or escutcheon) overlapping and facing in the same direction; conjoined.
- accorders — Plural form of accorder.
- accounted — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.