9-letter words containing s, e, t
- 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
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- asemantic — not semantic
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- ashtoreth — an ancient Semitic fertility goddess, identified with Astarte and Ishtar
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- ask after — If someone asks after you, they ask someone how you are.
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect
- asphalted — Simple past tense and past participle of asphalt.
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- assaulted — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assaulter — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assenting — Present participle of assent.
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- asserters — Plural form of asserter.
- asserting — Present participle of assert.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assertory — characterized by or relating to declaration or affirmation
- assesment — Misspelling of assessment.
- assetless — having no assets or property that can be used to pay off debts
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- asterisks — Plural form of asterisk.
- asterisms — Plural form of asterism.
- asterixis — (pathology) An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands.
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- astrodome — a transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which observations can be made, esp of the stars
- astrofell — (in the works of Spenser) an unidentified plant, commonly believed to be akin to an aster
- astrogate — (science fiction, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.