9-letter words starting with as
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assertory — characterized by or relating to declaration or affirmation
- assesment — Misspelling of assessment.
- assessing — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
- assessors — Plural form of assessor.
- assetless — having no assets or property that can be used to pay off debts
- assidious — Misspelling of assiduous.
- assiduity — constant and close application
- assiduous — Someone who is assiduous works hard or does things very thoroughly.
- assignees — Plural form of assignee.
- assigners — Plural form of assigner.
- assigning — Present participle of assign.
- assist at — to be present at; attend
- assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
- assistful — (archaic) helpful.
- assisting — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- asskicker — to kick ass. See kick (def 33).
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- assoiling — Present participle of assoil.
- 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
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assorting — Present participle of assort.
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- 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.
- assumably — in a presumable manner
- assumedly — in a presumed manner
- assumpsit — (before 1875) an action to recover damages for breach of an express or implied contract or agreement that was not under seal
- 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.
- assuredly — If something is assuredly true, it is definitely true.
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- asterisks — Plural form of asterisk.
- asterisms — Plural form of asterism.
- asterixis — (pathology) An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands.
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- astomatal — having no stoma
- astonying — Present participle of astony.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- astragali — Plural form of astragalus.
- astragals — Plural form of astragal.
- astrakhan — Astrakhan is black or grey curly fur from the skins of lambs. It is used for making coats and hats.
- astrangia — a genus of corals forming small, encrusting colonies, found in shallow waters off both coasts of the U.S.
- astrantia — a hardy flowering plant from the genus Astrantia and family Apiaceae. It produces tiny flowers in the mid-summer months and dies back after flowering every year