9-letter words containing e, d, t
- 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.
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- 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.
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- aydelotte — Frank, 1880–1956, U.S. educator.
- babbitted — Simple past tense and past participle of babbitt.
- backdated — Put an earlier date to (a document or agreement) than the actual one.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- bad taste — lack of discernment
- baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
- ballasted — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballotade — a movement similar to a croupade except that the horse draws in its hind legs so that the iron of the shoes is visible.
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.
- bartended — Simple past tense and past participle of bartend.
- bartender — A bartender is a person who serves drinks behind a bar.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bat-eared — (of a dog or other canid) having large, erect ears rounded at the top, resembling those of a bat.
- batardeau — A cofferdam.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- be seated — to assume a seated position; sit down
- bead test — a laboratory test used in the identification of certain metals or metal constituents, in which a bead covered with the material is heated in a flame and cooled to observe its properties.
- bead tree — Barbados pride (def 1).
- beadblast — a jet of small glass beads blown from a nozzle under air or steam pressure
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- beatitude — supreme blessedness or happiness
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bed table — an adjustable table or a tray with legs, designed to extend over or rest upon a bed.
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedighted — Simple past tense and past participle of bedight.
- bedjacket — A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bedsheets — Plural form of bedsheet.
- bedsitter — A bedsitter is the same as a bedsit.