9-letter words containing a, u, t, e, i
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- auditable — able to be audited
- auditress — a female auditor
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- auntie-ji — a respectful name and form of address given to a woman from the generation older than oneself
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- autecious — autoecious
- 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
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- 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.
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autocutie — a young and attractive but inexperienced female television presenter
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- 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.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autotelic — having a purpose in and justifying itself
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bisulcate — marked by two grooves
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- busticate — to break
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery