9-letter words containing s, e, a, t
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- aqueducts — Plural form of aqueduct.
- arbalests — Plural form of arbalest.
- arbitress — a female arbitrator
- arbutuses — Plural form of arbutus.
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- areostyle — (of columned buildings) having a wide intercolumniation equal to four or more diameters of one of the columns
- arethusas — Plural form of arethusa.
- argentous — of or containing silver in the monovalent state
- arguments — an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation: a violent argument.
- aridities — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- aristaeus — a son of Apollo and Cyrene: protector of herds and fields
- aristides — known as Aristides the Just. ?530–?468 bc, Athenian general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the Greek victories over the Persians at Marathon (490), Salamis (480), and Plataea (479)
- aristotle — a bottle
- armaments — Armaments are weapons and military equipment belonging to an army or country.
- armatures — Plural form of armature.
- armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
- aromatase — an enzyme that converts testosterone into an oestrogen
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- arrantest — Superlative form of arrant.
- arrestant — a substance that stops a chemical reaction
- arresters — Plural form of arrester.
- arresting — attracting attention; striking
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- arrestors — Plural form of arrestor.
- arriviste — You describe someone as an arriviste when you are criticizing them because they are trying very hard to belong to an influential or important social group which you feel they have no right to belong to.
- arrogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrogate.
- arsenates — Plural form of arsenate.
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- art-house — An art-house film is a film that is intended to be a serious artistic work rather than a piece of popular entertainment.
- artefacts — Plural form of artefact.
- artemisia — any herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Artemisia, of the N hemisphere, such as mugwort, sagebrush, and wormwood: family Asteraceae (composites)
- artemovsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- arterials — Physiology. pertaining to the blood in the pulmonary vein, in the left side of the heart, and in most arteries, having been oxygenated during its passage through the lungs and being normally bright red.
- arteritis — inflammation of an artery
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- artlessly — In an artless manner.
- artsiness — the condition of being artsy or affectedly creative
- asafetida — a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease
- asbestine — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- asbestoid — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- asbestous — having the look, structure or qualities of asbestos
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- ascetical — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium