9-letter words containing s, r
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- aroostook — river in N Me., flowing into the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada: c. 140 mi (225 km)
- arousable — able to be aroused
- arpeggios — Plural form of arpeggio.
- arquebuse — A sort of trigger-based handgun or firearm, by which a burning match was applied, from which the musket was derived.
- arrangers — Plural form of arranger.
- 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.
- arrhenius — Svante August (ˈsvantə ˈauɡʊst). 1859–1927, Swedish chemist and physicist, noted for his work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation: Nobel prize for chemistry 1903
- arrivisme — unscrupulous ambition
- 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.
- arrowless — having no arrows
- arsaces i — founder of the Parthian empire c250 b.c.
- arseholed — very drunk
- arsenates — Plural form of arsenate.
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- arsenical — of or containing arsenic
- arsenides — Plural form of arsenide.
- arsenious — of or containing arsenic in the trivalent state
- arsonists — Plural form of arsonist.
- art glass — (in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) any of the several varieties of glass using combinations of colors, special effects of opaqueness and transparency, etc., to create an aesthetic effect.
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- 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
- arthritis — Arthritis is a medical condition in which the joints in someone's body are swollen and painful.
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- arthrosis — a bone joint which enables movement
- artifacts — Plural form of artifact.
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- artisanal — pertaining to or noting a person skilled in an applied art: The men were taught artisanal skills such as bricklaying and carpentry.
- artlessly — In an artless manner.
- artsiness — the condition of being artsy or affectedly creative
- aryballos — a small narrow-necked vessel or bottle shaped like a sphere, used in ancient Greece to store oil or perfume
- aryballus — aryballos.
- as a rule — If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens.
- as far as — to the degree or extent that
- ascarides — any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.
- ascenders — Plural form of ascender.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.