9-letter words starting with ant
- 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
- anticline — a formation of stratified rock raised up, by folding, into a broad arch so that the strata slope down on both sides from a common crest
- anticling — of a nature that prevents clothes from clinging
- anticodon — a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation
- anticosti — an island of E Canada, in the Gulf of St Lawrence; part of Quebec. Area: 7881 sq km (3043 sq miles)
- anticrack — protecting a computer against unauthorized access
- anticrime — preventing or fighting crime
- antideath — Preventing death.
- antidoron — consecrated bread
- antidotal — a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
- antidotes — Plural form of antidote.
- antidraft — opposed to compulsory military service or conscription
- antielite — opposed to elitism
- antifraud — acting against fraud
- antigenic — Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- antiglare — Acting to reduce or combat glare.
- antigonus — (Gonatus) c319–239 b.c, king of Macedonia 283–239 (son of Demetrius I).
- antigraft — opposed to or designed to reduce corruption
- antigraph — A copy or transcript.
- antihelix — the rounded piece of cartilage inside the outer rim (helix) of the ear; anthelix
- antihuman — opposed to or hostile to humanity, inhuman
- antiknock — a compound, such as lead tetraethyl, added to petrol to reduce knocking in the engine
- antilabor — opposed to labor unions or to the interests of workers
- antilifer — a person in favour of abortion
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antimanic — preventing, curing, or palliating the symptoms of mania.
- antimeres — Plural form of antimere.
- antimeson — The antiparticle corresponding to a meson.
- antimeter — (obsolete) A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
- antimoney — Opposing the concept of money.
- antimonic — of or containing antimony in the pentavalent state
- antimonyl — of, consisting of, or containing the monovalent group SbO-
- antimoral — Opposing or countering moral behaviour.
- antimusic — any form of music intended to overthrow traditional conventions and expectations
- antimycin — an antibiotic drug active against various fungi
- antinodal — the region of maximum amplitude between two adjacent nodes in a standing wave.
- antinodes — Plural form of antinode.
- antinoise — sound generated so that it is out of phase with a noise, such as that made by an engine, in order to reduce the noise level by interference
- antinomic — opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.