9-letter words containing a, d, u
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anti-drug — opposing or restricting the use of narcotics or other drugs of abuse: to enact stricter antidrug laws.
- antifraud — acting against fraud
- apertured — having an aperture
- applauded — Simple past tense and past participle of applaud.
- applauder — One who applauds.
- appliqued — Appliqued shapes or fabric are formed from pieces of fabric which are stitched on to clothes or larger pieces of cloth.
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- aquaboard — a board that can be used to ride on water
- aquadrome — a venue for water sports
- aqueducts — Plural form of aqueduct.
- aquiclude — any geological formation that absorbs and holds water but does not transmit it at a sufficient rate to supply springs, wells, etc.
- aquitards — Plural form of aquitard.
- archdruid — a chief or principal druid
- archducal — of or relating to an archduke, archduchess, or archduchy
- archduchy — the territory ruled by an archduke or archduchess
- archdukes — Plural form of archduke.
- arduously — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
- asmoulder — in a smouldering or slowly burning manner
- assaulted — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assidious — Misspelling of assiduous.
- assiduity — constant and close application
- assiduous — Someone who is assiduous works hard or does things very thoroughly.
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- assumedly — in a presumed manner
- assuredly — If something is assuredly true, it is definitely true.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audacious — Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
- audio iff — (file format, music) (AIFF) A format developed by Apple Computer Inc. for storing high-quality digital audio and musical instrument information. It is also used by SGI and several professional audio packages.
- audiobook — a recorded reading of a book recorded on tape, CD, or digital formats
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- audiology — the scientific study of hearing, often including the treatment of persons with hearing defects
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- auditable — able to be audited
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
- auditress — a female auditor
- augmented — (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
- aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
- auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
- 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
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.