9-letter words containing t, r, a
- arillated — (of seeds) having an aril
- arimathea — a town in ancient Palestine: location unknown
- aristaeus — a son of Apollo and Cyrene: protector of herds and fields
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- 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
- arkwright — Sir Richard. 1732–92, English cotton manufacturer: inventor of the spinning frame (1769) which produced cotton thread strong enough to be used as a warp
- arlington — a county of N Virginia: site of Arlington National Cemetery
- arm-twist — to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.
- 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.
- armstrong — Edwin Howard. 1890–1954, US electrical engineer; invented the superheterodyne radio receiver and the FM radio
- army brat — a daughter or son of a career U.S. Army officer or enlisted person, esp. one raised in military communities
- army list — an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the army and reserve officers liable for recall
- aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
- aromatase — an enzyme that converts testosterone into an oestrogen
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- aromatize — to make aromatic
- aroostook — river in N Me., flowing into the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada: c. 140 mi (225 km)
- arrantest — Superlative form of arrant.
- arrayment — the act of arraying
- 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.
- arrive at — to reach by traveling
- 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.
- arrogated — Simple past tense and past participle of arrogate.
- arrogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrogate.
- arrowroot — Arrowroot is a substance obtained from a West Indian plant. It is used in cooking, for example for thickening sauces or in making biscuits.
- arsenates — Plural form of arsenate.
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- 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 paper — a high-quality type of paper having a smooth coating of china clay or similar substance on it
- art union — a lottery, often with prizes other than cash
- 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.
- arteether — Artemotil.
- 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)
- artemotil — A fast-acting blood schizonticide specifically indicated for the treatment of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and cerebral malaria cases.
- 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.
- arteriola — (anatomy) An arteriole.
- arteriole — any of the small subdivisions of an artery that form thin-walled vessels ending in capillaries