9-letter words containing u, a, e
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adeodatus — Saint, died a.d. 676, pope 672–676.
- adequated — Simple past tense and past participle of adequate.
- adjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjusters — Plural form of adjuster.
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- admeasure — to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
- admixture — Admixture means the same as mixture.
- aduantage — Obsolete spelling of advantage.
- adultered — Simple past tense and past participle of adulter.
- adulterer — An adulterer is someone who commits adultery.
- adultlike — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adultress — a female adulterer
- adumbrate — to outline; give a faint indication of
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aedoeagus — aedeagus.
- aegisthus — a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
- aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
- aeschylus — ?525–?456 bc, Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, Prometheus Bound, and the trilogy of the Oresteia
- aethalium — a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.
- affatuate — (obsolete) To infatuate.
- affixture — an affixing or being affixed
- affluence — Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living.
- affluency — affluence (def 2).
- affluents — Plural form of affluent.
- affluenza — the guilt or lack of motivation experienced by people who have made or inherited large amounts of money
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- age group — An age group is the people in a place or organization who were born during a particular period of time, for example all the people aged between 18 and 25.
- age-group — persons of approximately the same age and often of the same sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- ahasuerus — a king of ancient Persia and husband of Esther, generally identified with Xerxes
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air gauge — a gauge for measuring air pressure.
- air route — a designated route for aircraft flying between particular ground locations at specified minimum altitudes.
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- alexius i — (Alexius Comnenus) 1048-1118; emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1081-1118)
- aliquoted — Divided into, or distributed in aliquots.
- alleluias — Plural form of alleluia.
- almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.