9-letter words containing i, s, t
- 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:
- asemantic — not semantic
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- asininity — the quality or state of being asinine; stupidity
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- aspirants — Plural form of aspirant.
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity
- assailant — Someone's assailant is a person who has physically attacked them.
- assay kit — equipment used to carry out an analysis, esp a determination of the amount of metal in an ore or the amounts of impurities in a precious metal
- assenting — Present participle of assent.
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- asserting — Present participle of assert.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assiduity — constant and close application
- assist at — to be present at; attend
- assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
- assistful — (archaic) helpful.
- assisting — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- assorting — Present participle of assort.
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assumpsit — (before 1875) an action to recover damages for breach of an express or implied contract or agreement that was not under seal
- asterisks — Plural form of asterisk.
- asterisms — Plural form of asterism.
- asterixis — (pathology) An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands.
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- astonying — Present participle of astony.
- astragali — Plural form of astragalus.
- astrangia — a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
- astrantia — a hardy flowering plant from the genus Astrantia and family Apiaceae. It produces tiny flowers in the mid-summer months and dies back after flowering every year
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- astroglia — The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
- astucious — Subtle; cunning; astute.
- 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.
- ateliosis — a form of infantilism caused by pituitary malfunction, characterized by a childish face and voice and associated physical underdevelopment, but not affecting intelligence.
- athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.