9-letter words containing an
- analyzing — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- anamneses — the recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence.
- anamnesis — the ability to recall past events; recollection
- anamniote — any vertebrate animal, such as a fish or amphibian, that lacks an amnion, chorion, and allantois during embryonic development
- anandrous — (of flowers) having no stamens
- ananthous — (of higher plants) having no flowers
- anapaests — Plural form of anapaest.
- anapestic — a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
- anaphasic — relating to the third stage in cell division
- anaphoral — relating to the prayer of oblation and consecration performed during Holy Communion
- anaphoras — Plural form of anaphora.
- anaphoria — (symptom) A tendency for both eyes to look upward.
- anaphoric — of or relating to anaphora
- anaplasia — reversion of plant or animal cells to a simpler less differentiated form
- anaplasic — Of or pertaining to anaplasia.
- anaplasty — Surgery. reconstruction or restoration, especially by plastic surgery, of a lost or injured part.
- anaptotic — (of languages) tending to become uninflected, in accordance with a theory that languages evolve from uninflected to inflected and back.
- anaptyxis — the insertion of a short vowel between consonants in order to make a word more easily pronounceable
- anarchial — characterized by anarchy or political confusion
- anarchies — Plural form of anarchy.
- anarchise — make anarchic
- anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anarchize — to make anarchic, to destroy the order of things
- anarthria — loss of the ability to speak coherently
- anarthric — relating to anarthria
- anastasia — Grand Duchess. 1901–?18, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, believed to have been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, although several women subsequently claimed to be her
- anastasis — the episode in Christian theology in which Jesus is believed to have descended into Hell, often referred to as the 'harrowing of Hell'
- anatabine — a liquid alkaloid, C 10 H 12 N 2 , obtained from tobacco.
- anathemas — Plural form of anathema.
- anatolian — of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
- anatomies — Plural form of anatomy.
- anatomise — to cut apart (an animal or plant) to show or examine the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of; dissect.
- anatomist — An anatomist is an expert in anatomy.
- anatomize — If you anatomise a subject or an issue, you examine it in great detail.
- anaxarete — a princess turned to stone for scorning the love of a commoner.
- ancestors — Plural form of ancestor.
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anchorage — An anchorage is a place where a boat can anchor safely.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
- anchorman — The anchorman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
- anchormen — Plural form of anchorman.
- anchoveta — a small anchovy, Cetengraulis mysticetus, of the American Pacific, used as bait by tuna fishermen
- anchovies — Plural form of anchovy.
- anchylose — ankylose
- anciently — in ancient times
- ancientry — the quality of being ancient, or old-fashioned style
- ancillary — The ancillary workers in an institution are the people such as cleaners and cooks whose work supports the main work of the institution.