9-letter words containing a, t, u, m
- arguments — an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation: a violent argument.
- armatures — Plural form of armature.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- asomatous — having no material body; incorporeal.
- asphaltum — a substance used to protect surface areas of metal that do not require to be etched
- assumpsit — (before 1875) an action to recover damages for breach of an express or implied contract or agreement that was not under seal
- athenaeum — an institution for the promotion of learning
- atm forum — (networking, body) An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum <[email protected]>.
- 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
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- automaker — An automaker is a company that manufactures cars.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- 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.
- automaton — If you say that someone is an automaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- azimuthal — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- catamount — any of various medium-sized felines, such as the puma or lynx
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- cetuximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat cancer
- chalutzim — halutz.