9-letter words containing i, s, a, c
- asclepias — any plant of the perennial mostly tuberous genus Asclepias; some are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their showy orange-scarlet or purple flowers: family Asclepiadaceae
- asclepius — a god of healing; son of Apollo
- ascogonia — Plural form of ascogonium.
- ascribing — Present participle of ascribe.
- asemantic — not semantic
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astucious — Subtle; cunning; astute.
- asyllabic — not functioning in the manner of a syllable
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asystolic — Pertaining to asystole.
- atavistic — Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- atypicals — Plural form of atypical.
- audacious — Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- auriculas — Plural form of auricula.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- ausgleich — the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- auspicial — of or relating to auspices: auspicial rites.
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- autecious — autoecious
- autistics — Plural form of autistic.
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- backbites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backbite.
- backfiles — Plural form of backfile.
- backfills — Plural form of backfill.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backfisch — a teenage girl; a girl who has not yet reached maturity
- backflips — Plural form of backflip.
- backlifts — Plural form of backlift.
- backlists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backlist.
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- backshish — Alternative spelling of baksheesh.
- backsides — Plural form of backside.
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc