9-letter words containing a, c, u, t
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autofocus — a device that focuses a lens, camera, etc. automatically
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autolycus — a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 38 km in diameter and 3000 m deep
- autolytic — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- automatic — An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
- autotelic — having a purpose in and justifying itself
- autotruck — a motor truck.
- auxilytic — promoting lysis or increasing lytic action.
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- beach hut — a hut used for changing, storing deckchairs, etc
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- blackbutt — any of various Australian eucalyptus trees having rough fibrous bark and hard wood used as timber
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busticate — to break
- cajeputol — cineole.
- cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- calc-tufa — tufa (def 1).
- calc-tuff — Also called calcareous tufa, calc-tufa, calc-tuff. a porous limestone formed from calcium carbonate deposited by springs or the like. Compare travertine.
- calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cannulate — to insert a cannula into (a person)
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.