9-letter words that end in e
- armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
- arms race — An arms race is a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.
- army base — a centre from which military activities are coordinated
- aromatase — an enzyme that converts testosterone into an oestrogen
- aromatise — Alternative spelling of aromatize.
- aromatize — to make aromatic
- arousable — able to be aroused
- arquebuse — A sort of trigger-based handgun or firearm, by which a burning match was applied, from which the musket was derived.
- arrearage — something outstanding or owed
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- arrivance — the action or state of arriving
- 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
- arrowlike — resembling an arrow
- arseniate — (inorganic chemistry) arsenate.
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- art-house — An art-house film is a film that is intended to be a serious artistic work rather than a piece of popular entertainment.
- arteriole — any of the small subdivisions of an artery that form thin-walled vessels ending in capillaries
- artevelde — Jacob van1290?-1345; Fl. statesman
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- artmobile — a truck trailer outfitted to transport and exhibit works of art in areas without access to museums.
- arylamine — any of a group of amines in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia are replaced by aromatic groups.
- as a rule — If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens.
- asbestine — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- ascensive — having the propensity to move in an upwards direction
- ascerbate — Misspelling of acerbate.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- ascorbate — a salt of ascorbic acid
- ascospore — one of the spores (usually eight in number) that are produced in an ascus
- asheville — city in W N.C.: pop. 69,000
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- assayable — That may be assayed.
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assuasive — soothing; allaying
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- assumable — capable of being assumed, as an office or an obligation: Assumable mortgages are hard to find these days.
- assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)