9-letter words containing t, r, a
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- 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
- altigraph — an instrument that measures altitude and records the measurements graphically
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.
- altimetry — the science of measuring altitudes, as with an altimeter
- altricial — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) naked, blind, and dependent on the parents for food
- altruists — Plural form of altruist.
- alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
- amaranths — Plural form of amaranth.
- amarantin — a protein contained within the amaranth seed
- amaritude — Bitterness.
- amaterasu — the Japanese Shinto goddess personifying the sun.
- amatorial — of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love: amatory poems; an amatory look.
- amatorian — amatorial
- amaurotic — partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.
- amberlite — various insoluble cross-linked polymers used in water-treatment processes and in pharmacy
- ambrotype — an early type of glass negative that could be made to appear as a positive by backing it with black varnish or paper
- ambulator — a person who walks
- ameristic — not divided into parts; having no meristem.
- ametropia — loss of ability to focus images on the retina, caused by an imperfection in the refractive function of the eye
- ametropic — relating to ametropia
- amoralist — a person who adheres to the doctrine of amoralism
- amorality — not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
- amoristic — relating to, or characteristic of, romantic love
- amorosity — a loving feeling
- 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.
- amortized — 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.
- amourette — a brief affair or an affair that is insignificant to oneself
- amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
- 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)
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anarthria — loss of the ability to speak coherently
- anarthric — relating to anarthria
- anaxarete — a princess turned to stone for scorning the love of a commoner.
- 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.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
- ancientry — the quality of being ancient, or old-fashioned style
- andradite — a yellow, green, or brownish-black garnet that consists of calcium iron silicate and is used as a gemstone. Formula: Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3
- anestrous — not showing estrus.
- angostura — the bitter, aromatic bark of either of two South American citrus trees, Galipea officinalis or G. cusparia, used in medicine and in the preparation of liqueurs and bitters.
- angstroms — Plural form of angstrom.
- anhydrate — (organic chemistry) An acid anhydride.