9-letter words containing ana
- 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.
- aplanatic — (of a lens or mirror) free from spherical aberration
- appanaged — having appanage
- appanages — Plural form of appanage.
- applanate — having a horizontally flattened form.
- aquanauts — Plural form of aquanaut.
- artisanal — pertaining to or noting a person skilled in an applied art: The men were taught artisanal skills such as bricklaying and carpentry.
- athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
- bacchanal — a follower of Bacchus
- banalized — to render or make banal; trivialize: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
- camanachd — the game of shinty
- canaanite — a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the land of Canaan before the Israelite conquest
- canadiens — Alternative spelling of Canadiens.
- canal ray — a stream of positive ions produced in a discharge tube by allowing them to pass through holes in the cathode
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
- canalised — to make a canal or canals through.
- canalized — Simple past tense and past participle of canalize.
- canalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canalize.