9-letter words containing a, d, s, t
- tailslide — the backward descent of an aeroplane after stalling or losing speed while in an upward trajectory
- take odds — to accept such a bet
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- tanalised — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tar sands — sands or sandstone deposits containing tarry, viscous, bituminous oil
- tardiness — late; behind time; not on time: How tardy were you today?
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tasselled — Tasselled means decorated with tassels.
- taste bud — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- test card — a complex pattern used to test the characteristics of a television transmission system
- test data — data that is used in the testing of a computer program
- the heads — people in authority
- the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
- theodosia — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “god-given.”.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thirdsman — an intermediary or arbitrator; the third person
- thousands — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
- thursdays — on Thursdays; every Thursday.
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- toadshade — a plant, Trillium sessile, of the lily family, native to the southeastern U.S., having broad, mottled leaves and a solitary purplish or greenish flower.
- toadstone — any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
- toadstool — any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
- tornadoes — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- trackside — located next to a railroad track.
- tradesman — a person engaged in trade.
- tragedies — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- trailside — the side or border of a trail.
- trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- transited — the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one place to another.
- treadless — (of a tyre etc) having no tread
- treasured — wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- tribadism — lesbianism.
- triradius — a Y -shaped group of ridges on the palm of the hand at the base of each finger.
- tulsi das — 1543?–1623, Hindi poet and philosopher.
- tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- undulatus — billow cloud.
- unroasted — not roasted or cooked over dry heat
- unsaluted — not saluted; not addressed
- unscathed — not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.
- unslanted — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- unstaffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- unstained — not stained or spotted; unsoiled.
- unstalked — without a stalk or stalks.
- unstamped — not having a postage stamp affixed
- unstarred — not denoted with a star