9-letter words containing a, i, r, t, u
- auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
- auditress — a female auditor
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- australia — a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
- austrasia — the eastern region of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks that had its capital at Metz and lasted from 511 ad until 814 ad. It covered the area now comprising NE France, Belgium, and western Germany
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- cointreau — a colourless liqueur with orange flavouring