9-letter words starting with ar
- 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
- art union — a lottery, often with prizes other than cash
- 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.
- arteether — Artemotil.
- artefacts — Plural form of artefact.
- artemisia — any herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Artemisia, of the N hemisphere, such as mugwort, sagebrush, and wormwood: family Asteraceae (composites)
- artemotil — A fast-acting blood schizonticide specifically indicated for the treatment of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and cerebral malaria cases.
- artemovsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- arterials — Physiology. pertaining to the blood in the pulmonary vein, in the left side of the heart, and in most arteries, having been oxygenated during its passage through the lungs and being normally bright red.
- arteriola — (anatomy) An arteriole.
- arteriole — any of the small subdivisions of an artery that form thin-walled vessels ending in capillaries
- arteritis — inflammation of an artery
- arternoon — Eye dialect of afternoon.
- artevelde — Jacob van1290?-1345; Fl. statesman
- arthritic — Arthritic is used to describe the condition, the pain, or the symptoms of arthritis.
- arthritis — Arthritis is a medical condition in which the joints in someone's body are swollen and painful.
- arthrodia — a joint
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- arthrosis — a bone joint which enables movement
- arthurian — of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.