9-letter words containing a, u, t
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autoplast — autograft.
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autoroute — a French motorway
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
- autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- 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
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- autotruck — a motor truck.
- auxilytic — promoting lysis or increasing lytic action.
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- ayutthaya — a city in S Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River: capital of the country until 1767; noted for its canals and ruins. Pop (province): 727 300 (2000)
- 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.
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- 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.
- baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.
- banqueter — A guest at a banquet.
- banquette — A banquette is a long, low, cushioned seat. Banquettes are usually long enough for more than one person to sit on at a time.
- bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
- barathrum — any deep abyss