9-letter words containing n, a, e
- affluenza — the guilt or lack of motivation experienced by people who have made or inherited large amounts of money
- affrended — brought back into friendship
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- afrikaner — Afrikaner means belonging or relating to the white people in South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch.
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- afterings — the last of the milk drawn from a cow in milking, which contains the richest milk
- afternoon — The afternoon is the part of each day which begins at lunchtime and ends at about six o'clock.
- afterpain — any pain that follows its cause only after a certain delay
- agamemnon — a king of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy. On his return home he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- age range — a range indicating the upper and lower ages considered suitable for a specified thing
- agentival — of the performer of an action
- agentless — Without an agent.
- agileness — the quality of being agile
- agistment — the act of agisting
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agreeance — the act or state of agreeing; agreement.
- agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
- agrements — amenities
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air-lance — to clean with an air lance.
- airliners — Plural form of airliner.
- airplanes — Plural form of airplane.
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akhenaten — original name Amenhotep IV. died ?1358 bc, king of Egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from Thebes to Tell El Amarna and introduced the cult of Aten
- akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
- al capone — Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- alabamine — (formerly) astatine. Symbol: Ab.
- alan bean — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
- albertine — a female given name: derived from Albert.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldebaran — a binary star, one component of which is a red giant, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. It appears in the sky close to the star cluster Hyades. Visual magnitude: 0.85; spectral type: K5III; distance: 65 light years
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- alemannic — the group of High German dialects spoken in Alsace, Switzerland, and SW Germany
- alertness — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- alexander — Harold (Rupert Leofric George), Earl Alexander of Tunis. 1891–1969, British field marshal in World War II, who organized the retreat from Dunkirk and commanded in North Africa (1943) and Sicily and Italy (1944–45); governor general of Canada (1946–52); British minister of defence (1952–54)
- alexandra — 1844–1925, queen consort of Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland
- algidness — the state or quality of being algid
- alginates — Plural form of alginate.
- alienable — (of property) transferable to another owner
- alienated — indifferent, unfriendly, or hostile