9-letter words containing as
- invasions — Plural form of invasion.
- invertase — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- iron mask — an iron covering for the face, supposedly used in the past to conceal the identity of a well-known prisoner
- isinglass — a pure, transparent or translucent form of gelatin, obtained from the air bladders of certain fish, especially the sturgeon: used in glue and jellies and as a clarifying agent.
- isomerase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze reactions involving intramolecular rearrangements.
- itar tass — a news agency serving Russia, eastern Europe, and central Asia, created in 1992 to replace the former Soviet news agency Tass
- ixodiasis — a disease that is transmitted by ticks, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- jackasses — Plural form of jackass.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jump pass — a pass in which a player leaps into the air and throws the ball to a teammate before returning to the ground.
- jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
- kabloonas — Plural form of kabloona.
- karatekas — Plural form of karateka.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- kaskaskia — a river in E central Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- katabasis — a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa.
- katyushas — Plural form of katyusha.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.
- khattusas — Hattusas.
- kielbasas — Plural form of kielbasa.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- knotgrass — A common Eurasian plant of the dock family, with jointed creeping stems and small pink flowers. It is a serious weed in some areas.
- krasnodar — a territory of the Russian Federation in SE Europe. 34,200 sq. mi. (88,578 sq. km).
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- lacinias' — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- land mass — geography: area of land
- land-mass — a part of the continental crust above sea level having a distinct identity, as a continent or large island.
- lantastic — (networking, product) A trademarked name for numerous products of Artisoft, Inc..
- lardasses — Plural form of lardass.
- las casas — Bartolomé de [bahr-taw-law-me th e] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1474–1566, Spanish Dominican missionary and historian in the Americas.
- las vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- laserdisc — A disk resembling a larger CD but able to store video, now generally replaced by the DVD.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- lash line — a rope or cord for lashing together the edges of two flats or other pieces of theatrical scenery.
- lash rail — a rail, solidly fixed to the bulwarks of a vessel, to which objects on deck can be lashed.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.