9-letter words containing a, n, t, i, e
- auntie-ji — a respectful name and form of address given to a woman from the generation older than oneself
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- availment — (obsolete) Profit; advantage.
- aventaile — avantail
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- basaltine — a black or brown-green mineral (Ca, Mg, Fe)SiO3
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- bassanite — (mineral) A saline evaporite, consisting of calcium sulphate, found at Vesuvius.
- bassinets — Plural form of bassinet.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- battiness — the characteristic of being batty; craziness; insanity; eccentricity
- beastings — beestings
- beatinest — most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see.
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- beta line — beta (def 6).
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment