8-letter words containing a, t, u, i
- anuretic — relating to an inability to urinate
- apterium — a bare patch on the skin of a bird between the feathered pterylae
- aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.
- aquarist — the curator of an aquarium
- aquatics — sports or pastimes performed in or on the water
- aquatint — a technique of etching copper with acid to produce an effect resembling the flat tones of wash or watercolour. The tone or tint is obtained by acid (aqua) biting through the pores of a ground that only partially protects the copper
- aquitard — A semipermeable layer along an aquifer.
- aquitted — Misspelling of acquitted.
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- asturias — a region and former kingdom of NW Spain, consisting of a coastal plain and the Cantabrian Mountains: a Christian stronghold against the Moors (8th to 13th centuries); rich mineral resources
- at issue — The question or point at issue is the question or point that is being argued about or discussed.
- attitude — Your attitude to something is the way that you think and feel about it, especially when this shows in the way you behave.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- aubrieta — any of a genus (Aubrieta) of plants of the crucifer family native to the Middle East, with showy, purplish flowers: often grown in rock gardens
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- auditees — Plural form of auditee.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- auditory — Auditory means related to hearing.
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- aurality — the quality, condition, or degree of being aural
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autobiog — autobiography.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autodial — 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.
- autofill — (computing) Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autoptic — relating to or belonging to personal observation
- autunite — a yellowish fluorescent radioactive mineral consisting of a hydrated calcium uranium phosphate in tetragonal crystalline form. It is found in uranium ores. Formula: Ca(UO2)2(PO4)2.10–12H2O
- azimuths — Plural form of azimuth.
- azoturia — the condition of having excess nitrogen in the urine
- baculite — an extinct species of mollusc from the Late Cretaceous period, fossils of which have been found ranging from 7cm to 2m in length
- bail out — If you bail someone out, you help them out of a difficult situation, often by giving them money.
- bailouts — Plural form of bailout.
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite