9-letter words containing y, a
- adiposity — the state of being fat; obesity
- adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
- adjunctly — In an adjunct manner.
- adjutancy — the rank or office of a military adjutant
- admirably — worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection.
- admiralty — In Britain, the Admiralty is the government department that is in charge of the navy.
- adoringly — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adrenally — in a manner relating to the adrenal glands
- adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
- adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
- adversely — unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect: adverse criticism.
- adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
- advisably — Wisely, in an advisable manner.
- advisedly — If you say that you are using a word or expression advisedly, you mean that you have deliberately chosen to use it, even though it may sound unusual, wrong, or offensive, because it draws attention to what you are saying.
- aepyornis — any of the large extinct flightless birds of the genus Aepyornis, remains of which have been found in Madagascar
- aeriality — the quality of being aerial; insubstantiality
- aerifying — Present participle of aerify.
- aeromancy — the interpretation of the weather and atmospheric conditions to foretell the future
- aerometry — an instrument for determining the weight, density, etc., of air or other gases.
- aerophyte — epiphyte.
- 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
- aetiology — the philosophy or study of causation
- affluency — affluence (def 2).
- aforesayd — Obsolete spelling of aforesaid.
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- afterbody — any discarded part that continues to trail a satellite, rocket, etc, in orbit
- agelessly — in an ageless manner
- agreeably — to one's liking; pleasing: agreeable manners; an agreeable sensation.
- agriology — the study of primitive peoples
- aimlessly — without aim; purposeless.
- air ferry — a ferry service that transports passengers and cars by plane
- air layer — to treat a plant by means of air layering.
- air spray — pertaining to compressed-air spraying devices or to liquids used in them.
- air-spray — pertaining to compressed-air spraying devices or to liquids used in them.
- airworthy — If an aircraft is airworthy, it is safe to fly.
- airy disc — the bright central part of the diffraction pattern of light from a point source that is diffracted by a circular aperture.
- aitiology — Alternative form of aetiology.
- alackaday — alack
- alarmedly — in an alarmed manner
- albertype — collotype.
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldehydes — Plural form of aldehyde.
- aldehydic — any of a class of organic compounds containing the group −CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced.
- alder fly — any of several dark-colored neuropterous insects of the family Sialidae, the larvae of which are aquatic and predacious on other aquatic insects.
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- algometry — a device for determining sensitiveness to pain caused by pressure.
- alicyclic — (of an organic compound) having aliphatic properties, in spite of the presence of a ring of carbon atoms
- aliteracy — the state or quality of being able but disinclined to read
- alkylated — Simple past tense and past participle of alkylate.