9-letter words containing ac
- actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- actuators — Plural form of actuator.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- 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.
- acyclical — (economics) Moving independent of the overall state of an economy.
- acyclovir — an antiviral drug used to treat herpes. Formula: C8H11N5O3
- acylation — the introduction into a chemical compound of an acyl group
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- adjacence — the state of being adjacent
- adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
- aerospace — Aerospace companies are involved in developing and making rockets, missiles, space vehicles, and related equipment.
- agalactia — absence or failure of secretion of milk
- air coach — coach (def 4).
- air space — a space occupied by air.
- air stack — stack (def 13).
- alackaday — alack
- aliteracy — the state or quality of being able but disinclined to read
- amberjack — any of several large carangid fishes of the genus Seriola, esp S. dumerili, with golden markings when young, occurring in tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters
- ambrosiac — Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
- ambulacra — Plural form of ambulacrum.
- aminoacid — Alternative spelling of amino acid.
- anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
- anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
- anacidity — the abnormal absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.
- anaclinal — (of valleys and similar formations) progressing in a direction opposite to the dip of the surrounding rock strata
- anaclisis — the choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.
- anaclitic — of or relating to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on others or another
- anacondas — Plural form of anaconda.
- anacostia — a section of the District of Columbia, in the SE part.
- anacronym — An acronym the original meaning of which is not known to most speakers.
- anacruses — Plural form of anacrusis.
- anacrusis — one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse
- androsace — any plant of the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having basal leaves and white or reddish flowers.
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- antiblack — showing discrimination against Black people
- anticrack — protecting a computer against unauthorized access
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antwackie — old-fashioned
- anzac day — 25 April, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand commemorating the Anzac landing at Gallipoli in 1915
- apiaceous — of the family Apiaceae; umbelliferous
- appeached — Simple past tense and past participle of appeach.
- applejack — a brandy made from apples; distilled cider
- aracatuba — a city in SE Brazil.
- arachidic — of or derived from arachidic acid.
- arachnids — Plural form of arachnid.