9-letter words containing a, t, e
- alienates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alienate.
- alienator — A person who alienates.
- alienists — Plural form of alienist.
- alignment — An alignment is support for a particular group, especially in politics, or for a side in a quarrel or struggle.
- alimental — Supplying food; nourishing.
- alinement — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- aliquoted — Divided into, or distributed in aliquots.
- aliteracy — the state or quality of being able but disinclined to read
- aliterate — a person who is able to read but disinclined to do so
- alkylated — Simple past tense and past participle of alkylate.
- all there — having his or her wits about him or her; of normal intelligence
- all-state — selected on the basis of merit to represent one's state, often in a competition: an all-state debater; a pitcher on the all-state team.
- allayment — an abatement, moderation or alleviation
- allegator — (obsolete) A person who alleges.
- allegiant — a person who displays constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body
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- allentown — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River. Pop: 105 958 (2003 est)
- allergist — An allergist is a doctor who specializes in treating people with allergies.
- allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
- alleviant — a medical treatment that reduces pain but does not cure the underlying problem
- alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
- alley cat — An alley cat is a cat that lives in the streets of a town, is rather fierce, and is usually not owned by anyone.
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- alligated — to attach; bind.
- allineate — To align.
- allocated — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
- allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
- allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- allotrope — any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- almandite — almandine.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.
- altimetry — the science of measuring altitudes, as with an altimeter
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff