9-letter words containing s, i, e, r, a
- arteritis — inflammation of an artery
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- artsiness — the condition of being artsy or affectedly creative
- ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
- aspergill — An aspergillum.
- aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
- aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
- aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- 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.
- assailers — Plural form of assailer.
- 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.
- assigners — Plural form of assigner.
- asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- 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.
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- auditress — a female auditor
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- averroism — the teachings of Averroës
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- awestrike — to inspire great awe in
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.