9-letter words containing d, e, t, a
- appetized — Simple past tense and past participle of appetize.
- appointed — If something happens at the appointed time, it happens at the time that was decided in advance.
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- aqueducts — Plural form of aqueduct.
- areolated — marked by areolae
- aridities — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- arillated — (of seeds) having an aril
- aristides — known as Aristides the Just. ?530–?468 bc, Athenian general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the Greek victories over the Persians at Marathon (490), Salamis (480), and Plataea (479)
- arrogated — Simple past tense and past participle of arrogate.
- artevelde — Jacob van1290?-1345; Fl. statesman
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- asafetida — a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease
- asbestoid — Mineralogy. a fibrous mineral, either amphibole or chrysotile, formerly used for making incombustible or fireproof articles.
- ascendant — proceeding upwards; rising
- ascendent — a position of dominance or controlling influence: possession of power, superiority, or preeminence: With his rivals in the ascendant, he soon lost his position.
- ascidiate — of or relating to the tunicate molluscs of the genus Ascidium
- asiderite — an iron-free meteorite consisting of friable material.
- asphalted — Simple past tense and past participle of asphalt.
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- assaulted — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- asteroids — Plural form of asteroid.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astraddle — with a leg on either side of something
- astricted — Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astrodome — a transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which observations can be made, esp of the stars
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- at an end — If something is at an end, it has finished and will not continue.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attainted — Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- attempted — An attempted crime or unlawful action is an unsuccessful effort to commit the crime or action.
- attendant — An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom.
- attendees — a person who is present at a specific time or place: a conference with thousands of attendees.
- attenders — Plural form of attender.
- attendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of attend.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- attracted — feeling a pleasing, alluring, or fascinating influence from someone or something
- attritted — to wear down (an opposing military force) by numerical superiority in troops or firepower.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- auditable — able to be audited
- auditress — a female auditor
- 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
- 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.
- autocoder — (language) Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.