9-letter words containing a, c, e, t, i
- timescale — The timescale of an event is the length of time during which it happens or develops.
- traceried — ornamented or decorated with tracery.
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- trierarch — the commander of a trireme.
- triticale — a hybrid produced by crossing wheat, Triticum aestivum, and rye, Secale cereale.
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- uncertain — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
- unethical — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- utilicare — a usually state-funded program that helps elderly persons of low income to pay their utility bills, especially heating bills in winter.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- variscite — a secondary mineral, hydrated phosphate of aluminum, Al(PO 4)⋅2H 2 O, occurring mainly as massive, bluish-green nodules: sometimes used as a gem.
- vectorial — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- ventifact — a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand.
- vicariate — the office or authority of a vicar.
- victualer — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- videocast — a television broadcast of the video only.
- vindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- viscerate — to remove the bowels or intestines of
- vitaceous — belonging to the Vitaceae, the grape family of plants.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- vulcanite — a hard, readily cut and polished rubber, obtained by vulcanizing rubber with a large amount of sulfur, used in the manufacture of combs, buttons, and for electric insulation.
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitecoat — a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.
- whiteface — a Hereford.
- wyliecoat — a woolen or flannel undergarment, as a warm undershirt.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.