9-letter words containing a, d, i, t, o
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
- auto idle — (processor) A facility provided by some Intel clock doubled microprocessors where the internal clock can be slowed to the external clock rate while the processor is waiting for data from memory, returning to full speed as soon as the data arrives. See also System Management Mode.
- auto-dial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- boat ride — a ride in a boat
- bobtailed — having the tail cut short
- broadtail — the highly valued black wavy fur obtained from the skins of newly born karakul lambs; caracul
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- cogitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogitate.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- contadina — (in Italy) a female farmer or peasant
- contadino — (in Italy) a male farmer or peasant
- contained — kept from going beyond certain limits; confined
- cortadito — an espresso topped with an approximately equal amount of steamed milk.
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cytocidal — capable of killing cells.
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danthonia — any of various grasses of the genus Danthonia, of N temperate regions and South America
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- datapoint — An identifiable element in a data set.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deisolate — to remove from isolation.
- deltoidal — of or relating to a river delta.