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9-letter words containing n, a, s

  • asininely — In an asinine manner; very irrationally.
  • asininity — the quality or state of being asinine; stupidity
  • askewness — the state of being askew
  • aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
  • aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
  • aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
  • aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
  • aspirants — Plural form of aspirant.
  • asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
  • assailant — Someone's assailant is a person who has physically attacked them.
  • assailing — to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
  • assassins — Plural form of assassin.
  • assay ton — a unit of weight used in assaying ore, equivalent to 29.167 grams.
  • 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
  • assesment — Misspelling of assessment.
  • assessing — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
  • assignees — Plural form of assignee.
  • assigners — Plural form of assigner.
  • assigning — Present participle of assign.
  • 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.
  • assisting — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
  • assoiling — Present participle of assoil.
  • assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
  • assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
  • assorting — Present participle of assort.
  • assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  • 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.
  • assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
  • astonying — Present participle of astony.
  • astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
  • astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
  • astrakhan — Astrakhan is black or grey curly fur from the skins of lambs. It is used for making coats and hats.
  • 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
  • astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
  • astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
  • astronaut — An astronaut is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.
  • astronomy — Astronomy is the scientific study of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
  • aswan dam — a dam on the Nile built in 1902 and twice raised in height; now replaced by the Aswan High Dam
  • asynapsis — failure of pairing of chromosomes at meiosis
  • asyndesis — (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
  • asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
  • asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
  • asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
  • athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
  • athelings — Plural form of atheling.
  • athelstan — ?895–939 ad, king of Wessex and Mercia (924–939 ad), who extended his kingdom to include most of England
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