9-letter words containing a, u
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- acupoints — Plural form of acupoint.
- acusector — a needle for cutting tissue by means of a high-frequency electric current.
- acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- ad damnum — a formal and specific claim by a plaintiff for damages.
- ad verbum — word for word; verbatim
- add up to — If amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total when they are put together.
- addendums — a thing to be added; an addition.
- adducting — Present participle of adduct.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adductors — Plural form of adductor.
- adeodatus — Saint, died a.d. 676, pope 672–676.
- adequated — Simple past tense and past participle of adequate.
- adjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudging — Present participle of adjudge.
- adjunctly — In an adjunct manner.
- adjusters — Plural form of adjuster.
- adjusting — Alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result.
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- adjutancy — the rank or office of a military adjutant
- adjutants — Plural form of adjutant.
- adjuvants — Plural form of adjuvant.
- admeasure — to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
- admixture — Admixture means the same as mixture.
- adoptious — adopted
- adstratum — a substratum or superstratum.
- aduantage — Obsolete spelling of advantage.
- adulating — Present participle of adulate.
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
- adultered — Simple past tense and past participle of adulter.
- adulterer — An adulterer is someone who commits adultery.
- adulthood — Adulthood is the state of being an adult.
- adultlike — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adultress — a female adulterer
- adumbrant — Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
- adumbrate — to outline; give a faint indication of
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- adviceful — thoughtful or attentive
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aedoeagus — aedeagus.
- aegisthus — a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
- aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
- aeschylus — ?525–?456 bc, Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, Prometheus Bound, and the trilogy of the Oresteia
- aethalium — a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.
- affatuate — (obsolete) To infatuate.