9-letter words containing e, o, u
- aqueously — in water, or by means of water
- arboreous — thickly wooded; having many trees
- arboretum — An arboretum is a specially designed garden of different types of trees.
- areopagus — the hill to the northwest of the Acropolis in Athens
- argentous — of or containing silver in the monovalent state
- argue out — If two or more people argue something out, they discuss it or thoroughly in order to reach a conclusion or decision.
- armourers — Plural form of armourer.
- armouries — a drill hall used for training and as headquarters by a reserve unit of the armed forces
- arousable — able to be aroused
- arsenious — of or containing arsenic in the trivalent state
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- art-house — An art-house film is a film that is intended to be a serious artistic work rather than a piece of popular entertainment.
- asbestous — having the look, structure or qualities of asbestos
- asepalous — (of a plant or flower) having no sepals
- asmoulder — in a smouldering or slowly burning manner
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- at source — at the point of origin
- au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
- au revoir — goodbye
- 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.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- autecious — autoecious
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- 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.
- auto-tune — (sometimes lowercase) to alter (recorded audio) to correct pitch and timing or create a melody.
- autoclave — a strong sealed vessel used for chemical reactions at high pressure
- 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.
- 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
- autocycle — a bicycle powered or assisted by a small engine
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autoflare — a computer-operated, automatic landing system in an aircraft
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- autolyses — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
- automaker — An automaker is a company that manufactures cars.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.