9-letter words containing u, a, e
- 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
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- aluminate — a salt of the ortho or meta acid forms of aluminium hydroxide containing the ions AlO2– or AlO33–
- aluminise — To coat with a layer of aluminium.
- aluminite — a mineral, hydrous aluminum sulfate, Al 2 (SO 4)(OH) 4 ⋅7H 2 O, occurring in white, chalky masses.
- aluminize — to cover with aluminium or aluminium paint
- amaritude — Bitterness.
- amaterasu — the Japanese Shinto goddess personifying the sun.
- ambiguate — To make a situation or something more ambiguous.
- ambulance — An ambulance is a vehicle for taking people to and from hospital.
- ambulante — a portable tea table, used in 18th-century France.
- ambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of ambulate.
- ambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambulate.
- ambulette — a motor vehicle designed for transporting disabled people
- ambuscade — an ambush
- amenaunce — a person's bearing or demeanour
- americium — a white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. It is used as an alpha-particle source. Symbol: Am; atomic no: 95; half-life of most stable isotope, 243Am: 7.4 × 103 years; valency: 2,3,4,5, or 6; relative density: 13.67; melting pt: 1176°C; boiling pt: 2607°C (est)
- amourette — a brief affair or an affair that is insignificant to oneself
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- ampullate — Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
- amputated — Simple past tense and past participle of amputate.
- amputates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amputate.
- amusement — Amusement is the feeling that you have when you think that something is funny or amusing.
- amygdules — Plural form of amygdule.
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.
- anacruses — Plural form of anacrusis.
- analogues — Plural form of analogue.
- andouille — a spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin
- androgeus — a son of Minos and Pasiphaë who fell victim to Athenian King Aegeus: in revenge, Minos waged war on the Athenians and forced them to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths to the Minotaur every nine years.
- anecdotum — (rare, Latinate) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- anestrous — not showing estrus.
- aneuploid — (of polyploid cells or organisms) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number, caused by one chromosome set being incomplete
- aneurysms — Plural form of aneurysm.
- angelique — a female given name.
- angouleme — city in SW France: pop. 46,000
- anguipede — a mythological creature of Persian origin with a rooster's head and snakes for legs
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- anguishes — Plural form of anguish.
- angulated — Simple past tense and past participle of angulate.
- anhungred — very hungry
- annexures — Plural form of annexure.
- announced — Simple past tense and past participle of announce.
- announcer — An announcer is someone who introduces programmes on radio or television or who reads the text of a radio or television advertisement.
- announces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of announce.
- annualise — To express (a quantity such as an interest rate, profit, expenditure etc.) as if it applied or were measured over one year.
- annualize — to convert (a rate of interest) to an annual rate when it is quoted for a period of less than a year
- annuities — Plural form of annuity.
- annuitize — If you annuitize a lump sum payment, you convert it into a regular income such as a pension or annuity.
- annulated — Having rings.
- annulment — The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.