9-letter words starting with a
- a & e — In Britain, A & E is the part of a hospital that deals with accidents and emergencies. A & E is an abbreviation for 'accident and emergency'.
- a & m — Agricultural and Mechanical
- a & p — Agricultural and Pastoral (Association, Show, etc)
- a & r — artists and repertoire
- a a brill — A(braham) A(rden) 1874–1948, U.S. psychoanalyst and author, born in Austria.
- a bad lot — an unpleasant or disreputable person
- a battery — the power source for the filaments of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- a big ask — a task which is difficult to fulfil
- a bum rap — If you say that someone has gotten a bum rap, you mean that they have been treated unfairly or punished unfairly.
- a bursary — the higher of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc
- a case of — If you say that a task or situation is a case of a particular thing, you mean that it consists of that thing or can be described as that thing.
- à couvert — under cover; secure
- a far cry — a long way
- a fat lot — very little or nothing
- a heck of — People use a heck of to emphasize how big something is or how much of it there is.
- a horizon — the top layer of a soil profile, usually dark-coloured and containing humus and from which soluble salts may have been leached
- a la king — cooked in a cream sauce with mushrooms and green peppers
- a la mode — A dessert à la mode is served with ice cream.
- a la mort — mortally ill.
- a load of — You can use a load of to refer to people or things which you do not like. For example, if you say that something is a load of rubbish, you are emphasizing that you think it is no good at all or not true at all.
- a* search — (algorithm) A graph search algorithm. A* is guaranteed to find a minimal solution path before any other solution paths, if a solution exists, in other words, it is an "admissible" search algorithm. Each path is assigned a value based on the cost of the path (e.g. its length) and an (under)estimate of the cost of completing the path, i.e. the cost of a path from the end of the current path to a solution.
- a-student — An A-student is a student who regularly receives the highest grades for his or her work.
- aardvarks — Plural form of aardvark.
- aaronical — Aaronic.
- ab initio — from the start; from scratch
- abacinate — (transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.
- abaciscus — a tessera.
- abactinal — (of organisms showing radial symmetry) situated away from or opposite to the mouth; aboral
- abafungin — A broad-spectrum antifungal agent with a novel mechanism of action for the treatment of dermatomycosis.
- abamperes — Plural form of abampere.
- abandoned — An abandoned place or building is no longer used or occupied.
- abandonee — a person to whom something is formally relinquished, esp an insurer having the right to salvage a wreck
- abandoner — a person or thing that abandons
- abasement — to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
- abashedly — ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted: My clumsiness left me abashed.
- abashless — unabashed
- abashment — to destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed: to abash someone by sneering.
- abat-jour — a device, as a skylight or reflector, for diverting light into a building.
- abatement — Abatement means a reduction in the strength or power of something or the reduction of it.
- abattoirs — Plural form of abattoir.
- abbatical — (obsolete) alternate form of abbatial (Attested from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century.).
- abbeville — a town in N France: brewing, sugar-refining, and carpet industries. Pop: 24 567 (1999)
- abc algol — (language) An extension of ALGOL 60 with arbitrary data structures and user-defined operators, for symbolic mathematics.
- abcoulomb — the cgs unit of electric charge in the electromagnetic system; the charge per second passing any cross section of a conductor through which a steady current of 1 abampere is flowing: equivalent to 10 coulombs
- abd allah — 1846–99, Sudanese leader; he led the uprising against the Egyptian government of Sudan; defeated by Kitchener in 1898
- abdicable — to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner: The aging founder of the firm decided to abdicate.
- abdicated — Simple past tense and past participle of abdicate.
- abdicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abdicate.
- abdicator — to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner: The aging founder of the firm decided to abdicate.
- abdominal — Abdominal is used to describe something that is situated in the abdomen or forms part of it.
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