9-letter words containing s, e, t, r
- airstream — a wind, esp at a high altitude
- airstrike — a military attack involving aircraft
- alabaster — Alabaster is a white stone that is used for making statues, vases, and ornaments.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alertness — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- allergist — An allergist is a doctor who specializes in treating people with allergies.
- allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- amaterasu — the Japanese Shinto goddess personifying the sun.
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- amortised — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- amortizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amortize.
- amsterdam — the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)
- ancestors — Plural form of ancestor.
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anestrous — not showing estrus.
- anoestrus — a period of sexual inactivity between two periods of oestrus in many mammals
- answer to — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- answereth — Archaic third-person singular form of answer.
- anteaters — Plural form of anteater.
- anterooms — Plural form of anteroom.
- antibuser — someone who opposes busing
- antimeres — Plural form of antimere.
- antipress — opposed to or acting against the press
- antiquers — a person who takes a special interest in antiques; a collector of antiquities; antiquary.
- antiserum — blood serum containing antibodies against a specific antigen, used to treat or provide immunity to a disease
- antshrike — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Thamnophilus, superficially resembling the shrike.
- apartness — the quality of being apart
- aperients — Plural form of aperient.
- aperitifs — Plural form of aperitif.
- apertness — the quality of being apert
- apertures — Plural form of aperture.
- appetiser — Alternative spelling of appetizer.
- 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