9-letter words containing e, n, u, t
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- athenaeum — an institution for the promotion of learning
- athenaeus — late 2nd century a.d, Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
- attenuant — causing dilution or thinness, esp of the blood
- attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- 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.
- 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
- auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- auto-tune — (sometimes lowercase) to alter (recorded audio) to correct pitch and timing or create a melody.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- 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.
- 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
- beaten-up — A beaten-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
- bee-stung — (of the lips) pouting and sensuous
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- betel nut — the fruit of the betel palm, chewed with leaves of the betel pepper by some Southeast Asian peoples as a mild stimulant
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- blue note — a flattened third or seventh, used frequently in the blues
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
- bluntness — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- bounteous — giving freely; generous
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- bruteness — the quality of being brutish or savage
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- budgeting — financial planning
- budtender — Slang. a person who sells marijuana or marijuana products in a retail shop or medical dispensary.
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail