9-letter words containing ar
- aromatase — an enzyme that converts testosterone into an oestrogen
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- aromatize — to make aromatic
- aroostook — river in N Me., flowing into the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada: c. 140 mi (225 km)
- arousable — able to be aroused
- arpeggios — Plural form of arpeggio.
- arpillera — a Peruvian hand-sewn wall-hanging, typically of exquisite detail
- arquebuse — A sort of trigger-based handgun or firearm, by which a burning match was applied, from which the musket was derived.
- arracacha — a South American plant, Arracacia xanthorrhiza, the root of which is edible and is a popular food in South America
- arraigned — to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
- arraigner — Lb legal One who arraigns.
- arrangers — Plural form of arranger.
- arranging — Present participle of arrange.
- arrantest — Superlative form of arrant.
- arrayment — the act of arraying
- arrearage — something outstanding or owed
- arrestant — a substance that stops a chemical reaction
- arresters — Plural form of arrester.
- arresting — attracting attention; striking
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- arrestors — Plural form of arrestor.
- arrhenius — Svante August (ˈsvantə ˈauɡʊst). 1859–1927, Swedish chemist and physicist, noted for his work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation: Nobel prize for chemistry 1903
- arrivance — the action or state of arriving
- arrive at — to reach by traveling
- arrivisme — unscrupulous ambition
- arriviste — You describe someone as an arriviste when you are criticizing them because they are trying very hard to belong to an influential or important social group which you feel they have no right to belong to.
- arrogance — the quality or state of being arrogant; overbearing pride or self-importance
- arrogancy — offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
- arrogated — Simple past tense and past participle of arrogate.
- arrogates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrogate.
- arrow key — (hardware) One of four keys on a keyboard marked with arrows pointing up, down, left and right. The arrow keys are used for such things as moving the cursor in a text document, for moving the input focus between the fields of a form or sometimes for scrolling a picture.
- arrowhead — An arrowhead is the sharp, pointed part of an arrow.
- arrowless — having no arrows
- arrowlike — resembling an arrow
- arrowroot — Arrowroot is a substance obtained from a West Indian plant. It is used in cooking, for example for thickening sauces or in making biscuits.
- arrowwood — any of various trees or shrubs, esp certain viburnums, having long straight tough stems formerly used by North American Indians to make arrows
- arrowworm — any small marine invertebrate of the genus Sagitta, having an elongated transparent body with fins and prehensile oral bristles: phylum Chaetognatha (chaetognaths)
- arsaces i — founder of the Parthian empire c250 b.c.
- arseholed — very drunk
- arsenates — Plural form of arsenate.
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- arsenical — of or containing arsenic
- arsenides — Plural form of arsenide.
- arsenious — of or containing arsenic in the trivalent state
- arsonists — Plural form of arsonist.
- art glass — (in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) any of the several varieties of glass using combinations of colors, special effects of opaqueness and transparency, etc., to create an aesthetic effect.
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- art paper — a high-quality type of paper having a smooth coating of china clay or similar substance on it