9-letter words containing ant
- antedates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antedate.
- antefixes — Plural form of antefix.
- antegrade — Moving or directed forward.
- antelopes — Plural form of antelope.
- antelucan — occurring before the arrival of daylight, relating to the hours before dawn
- antenatal — Antenatal means relating to the medical care of women when they are expecting a baby.
- antennary — of, relating to, or resembling an antenna.
- antennate — having antennae.
- antennule — one of a pair of small mobile appendages on the heads of crustaceans in front of the antennae, usually having a sensory function
- anteporch — an outer porch.
- anterooms — Plural form of anteroom.
- antessive — (grammar) Indicating the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
- anthelion — a faint halo sometimes seen in polar or high altitude regions around the shadow of an object cast onto a thick cloud bank or fog
- anthemion — a floral design, used esp in ancient Greek and Roman architecture and decoration, usually consisting of honeysuckle, lotus, or palmette leaf motifs
- anthocarp — a composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
- anthotaxy — the arrangement of flowers on a stem or parts on a flower
- anthozoan — any of the solitary or colonial sessile marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, including the corals, sea anemones, and sea pens, in which the body is in the form of a polyp
- anthozoic — relating to anthozoans
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- anthropic — of or relating to human beings
- anthropo- — indicating man or human
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- anthurium — any of various tropical American aroid plants constituting the genus Anthurium, many of which are cultivated as house plants for their showy foliage and their flowers, which are borne in a long-stalked spike surrounded by a flaring heart-shaped white or red bract
- anti-atom — an atom composed of antiparticles, in which the nucleus contains antiprotons with orbiting positrons
- anti-drug — opposing or restricting the use of narcotics or other drugs of abuse: to enact stricter antidrug laws.
- anti-hero — An anti-hero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- anti-icer — a device fitted to an aircraft to prevent the formation of ice
- anti-lock — designating or of an automotive braking system that prevents the wheels from locking during a sudden stop
- anti-nazi — opposing any individual or group that espouses Nazi ideologies
- anti-pill — denoting a material that does not form pills or that resists pilling
- anti-porn — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- anti-site — a website through which people can express their contempt for a particular person, organization, etc
- anti-skid — intended to prevent vehicles from skidding
- antiabuse — designed to prevent abuse
- antiaging — resisting the effects of ageing
- antialien — relating to the prevention of foreign animal or plant species from becoming established
- antiarmor — (military) Designed for attacking armored vehicles, such as tanks and armored personnel carriers.
- antiatoms — Plural form of antiatom.
- antiauxin — a substance acting against auxin
- antiblack — showing discrimination against Black people
- antibully — Intended to counter bullying.
- antibuser — someone who opposes busing
- antically — in a ludicrous or grotesque manner
- anticaste — Lb sociology Opposing the social system of caste.
- antichain — (mathematics) A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq).
- antichild — Opposing children.
- antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
- anticivic — opposed to citizenship