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9-letter words containing n, a

  • acception — (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • accompany — If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them.
  • accordant — in conformity or harmony
  • according — in proportion; in relation
  • accordion — An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music.
  • accosting — Present participle of accost.
  • accounted — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • accounter — A person providing an account of events.
  • accreting — Present participle of accrete.
  • accretion — An accretion is an addition to something, usually one that has been added over a period of time.
  • accrument — Alternative form of accruement.
  • accumbent — (of plant parts and plants) lying against some other part or thing
  • ace point — the first point in backgammon.
  • acescence — The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
  • acesodyne — mitigating pain; anodyne.
  • acetylene — Acetylene is a colourless gas which burns with a very hot bright flame. It is often used in lamps and for cutting and welding metal.
  • acheulean — designating or of a Lower Paleolithic culture characterized by skillfully made bifacial flint hand axes
  • acheulian — (in Europe) the period in the Lower Palaeolithic following the Abbevillian, represented by the use of soft hammerstones in hand axe production made of chipped stone, bone, antler, or wood. The Acheulian dates from the Riss glaciation
  • achieving — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
  • achillean — the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.
  • achimenes — any plant of the tropical S American tuberous-rooted perennial genus Achimenes, with showy red, blue, or white tubular flowers, some of which are grown as greenhouse plants: family Gesneriaceae
  • acid rain — Acid rain is rain polluted by acid that has been released into the atmosphere from factories and other industrial processes. Acid rain is harmful to the environment.
  • acidizing — Acidizing is the injection of acid into the reservoir rock to enlarge the pore spaces and increase the flow of oil.
  • acidulant — an acidulating substance.
  • acidulent — an acidulating substance.
  • aciniform — shaped like a bunch of grapes
  • acnegenic — causing or able to cause acne.
  • aconcagua — a mountain in W Argentina: the highest peak in the Andes and in the W Hemisphere. Height: 6960 m (22 835 ft)
  • aconitine — a poison extracted from aconite
  • acorn cup — the woody cuplike base that holds the nut from an oak tree
  • acquaints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquaint.
  • acquiring — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
  • acre-inch — the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 inch; one twelfth of an acre-foot: equivalent to 3630 cubic feet or 102.8 cubic metres
  • acridness — Bitterness or acerbity.
  • acrodonts — Plural form of acrodont.
  • acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
  • acronical — happening at sunset, as the rising of a star
  • acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • acronymic — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
  • actinides — Plural form of actinide.
  • actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
  • actionary — (business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
  • actioners — Plural form of actioner.
  • actioning — Present participle of action.
  • actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action
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