9-letter words containing s, a, t, n
- aspirants — Plural form of aspirant.
- assailant — Someone's assailant is a person who has physically attacked them.
- 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.
- 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.
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assorting — Present participle of assort.
- 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.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.