9-letter words containing n, s, a
- athenaeus — late 2nd century a.d, Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- atjehnese — a member of an indigenous Muslim people of northernmost Sumatra.
- atonalism — atonality.
- atonalist — a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- 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.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- avifaunas — Plural form of avifauna.
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- awakeness — The quality or state of being awake.
- awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- awl snail — any tiny, usually white land snail of the family Subulinidae, some introduced species being pests of hothouse flowers.
- axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- azureness — The quality of being azure in colour.
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- bacchants — Plural form of bacchant.
- backbends — Plural form of backbend.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
- backhands — Plural form of backhand.
- backlands — Plural form of backland.
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bad lands — a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- balancers — Plural form of balancer.