9-letter words containing a
- acrospore — a spore borne at the tip of a sporophore, as a basidiospore.
- acrostics — Plural form of acrostic.
- acroteria — acroters
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actinopod — any protozoan of the phylum Actinopoda, such as a radiolarian or a heliozoan, having stiff radiating cytoplasmic projections
- actionary — (business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- actioning — Present participle of action.
- actionist — a person who is bent on (spoken) action
- activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activater — Alternative spelling of activator.
- activates — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activator — a thing or person that activates
- activists — Plural form of activist.
- actresses — Plural form of actress.
- actualise — to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.
- actualism — the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- actualist — a person who deals in hard facts; a realist
- actualité — humorous word for truth
- actuality — Actuality is the state of really existing rather than being imagined.
- actualize — to make actual or real
- actuarial — Actuarial means relating to the work of an actuary.
- actuarian — Insurance. a person who computes premium rates, dividends, risks, etc., according to probabilities based on statistical records.
- actuaries — Plural form of actuary.
- actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuators — Plural form of actuator.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acupoints — Plural form of acupoint.
- acusector — a needle for cutting tissue by means of a high-frequency electric current.
- acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- acyclical — (economics) Moving independent of the overall state of an economy.
- acyclovir — an antiviral drug used to treat herpes. Formula: C8H11N5O3
- acylation — the introduction into a chemical compound of an acyl group
- ad agency — An ad agency is a company whose business is to create advertisements for other companies or organizations.
- ad damnum — a formal and specific claim by a plaintiff for damages.
- ad patres — dead.
- ad verbum — word for word; verbatim
- adam bede — a novel (1859) by George Eliot.
- adamantly — utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.
- adamently — Misspelling of adamantly.
- adapazari — city in NW Turkey: pop. 152,000
- adaptable — If you describe a person or animal as adaptable, you mean that they are able to change their ideas or behaviour in order to deal with new situations.
- adaptably — In an adaptable manner.
- adaptions — the act of adapting.
- adaptogen — any of various natural substances used in herbal medicine to normalize and regulate the systems of the body
- add up to — If amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total when they are put together.
- addendums — a thing to be added; an addition.
- adderwort — the bistort, a herbaceous flowering plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the dock family