9-letter words containing a, o, u, i
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- autolysis — the destruction of cells and tissues of an organism by enzymes produced by the cells themselves
- autolytic — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- automatic — An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
- autotelic — having a purpose in and justifying itself
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- bibacious — tending to drink in excess
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bilobular — having two lobules
- bilocular — divided into two chambers or cavities
- binocular — involving, relating to, seeing with or intended for both eyes
- binovular — relating to or derived from two different ova
- bodacious — If you say that someone or something is bodacious, you mean that they are very good or impressive.
- botulinal — of or relating to the bacterium Clostridium botulinum
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- caucasoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to the lighter-complexioned supposed racial group of mankind, which includes the peoples indigenous to Europe, N Africa, SW Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and their descendants in other parts of the world
- caudiform — (zoology) Resembling a tail.
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavillous — Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling.