9-letter words containing o, u, a
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
- aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
- affluxion — a streaming or flowing towards something
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- age group — An age group is the people in a place or organization who were born during a particular period of time, for example all the people aged between 18 and 25.
- age-group — persons of approximately the same age and often of the same sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- air route — a designated route for aircraft flying between particular ground locations at specified minimum altitudes.
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- akoluthos — the title of a commander of a regiment in the Byzantine Varangian Guard
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- aliquoted — Divided into, or distributed in aliquots.
- all found — with everything provided, such as food, electricity, heating and laundry, at no additional cost
- all fours — both the arms and legs of a person or all the legs of a quadruped (esp in the phrase on all fours)
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- alum rock — a town in W central California, near San Jose.
- aluminous — resembling aluminium
- alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
- amaurosis — blindness, esp when occurring without observable damage to the eye
- amaurotic — partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.
- ambagious — ambiguous
- ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
- ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
- ambulator — a person who walks
- ambuscado — an ambush
- amorously — inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love: an amorous disposition.
- amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
- amount to — If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.
- amounting — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amourette — a brief affair or an affair that is insignificant to oneself
- amphioxus — cephalochordate
- amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
- analagous — Misspelling of analogous, common other spelling.
- analogous — If one thing is analogous to another, the two things are similar in some way.
- analogues — Plural form of analogue.