9-letter words containing a, s, t, o, u
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- 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
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autofocus — a device that focuses a lens, camera, etc. automatically
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autolycus — a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 38 km in diameter and 3000 m deep
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- autolyses — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- autolysis — the destruction of cells and tissues of an organism by enzymes produced by the cells themselves
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autoplast — autograft.
- 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
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
- autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cocoanuts — Plural form of cocoanut.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- construal — an act of construing