9-letter words containing a, t, d
- assiduity — constant and close application
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astrodome — a transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which observations can be made, esp of the stars
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- at a word — at once
- at an end — If something is at an end, it has finished and will not continue.
- at hazard — at risk; in danger
- at random — If you choose people or things at random, you do not use any particular method, so they all have an equal chance of being chosen.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- attack ad — a public notice, such as a printed display or a short film on television, in which a political party criticizes or abuses an opponent
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attainted — Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- attempted — An attempted crime or unlawful action is an unsuccessful effort to commit the crime or action.
- attendant — An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom.
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- attendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of attend.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- attracted — feeling a pleasing, alluring, or fascinating influence from someone or something
- attritted — to wear down (an opposing military force) by numerical superiority in troops or firepower.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- 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
- 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.
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- avid fart — a flashy and intrusive visual effects editing style
- aydelotte — Frank, 1880–1956, U.S. educator.
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- backdated — Put an earlier date to (a document or agreement) than the actual one.