9-letter words containing e, t, i
- affiliate — An affiliate is an organization which is officially connected with another, larger organization or is a member of it.
- affirmest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of affirm.
- affirmeth — Archaic third-person singular form of affirm.
- affixment — the act of attaching or affixing
- affixture — an affixing or being affixed
- afflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- afflicter — a person who causes distress, torment, or affliction
- affreight — to charter (a ship) as a freight carrier.
- affricate — a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point, such as the sound written ch, as in chair
- aforetime — formerly
- afterings — the last of the milk drawn from a cow in milking, which contains the richest milk
- afterlife — The afterlife is a life that some people believe begins when you die, for example a life in heaven or as another person or animal.
- afterpain — any pain that follows its cause only after a certain delay
- aftertime — the time to come; the future
- agatelike — Resembling or characteristic of agate.
- age limit — An age limit is the oldest or youngest age at which you are allowed under particular regulations to do something.
- agelastic — never laughing; mirthless
- agentival — of the performer of an action
- agilities — the power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises demanding agility.
- agistment — the act of agisting
- agitative — tending to stir or agitate
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agrestial — inhabiting a rural area
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- aids test — a blood test that detects whether the blood sample contains antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and thus whether a person has or is likely to develop AIDS
- aigrettes — Plural form of aigrette.
- air alert — the condition in which combat aircraft are airborne and ready for an operation
- air fleet — a group of military aircraft, usually under one commander.
- air meter — a small, sensitive anemometer of the windmill type.
- air route — a designated route for aircraft flying between particular ground locations at specified minimum altitudes.
- airlifted — Simple past tense and past participle of airlift.
- airlifter — a large aircraft specially designed to transport heavy cargo and to land on and take off from a relatively short runway.
- airstream — a wind, esp at a high altitude
- airstrike — a military attack involving aircraft
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- albert ii — full name Albert Felix Humbert Theodore Christian Eugene Marie. born 1934, king of Belgium (1993–2013); abdicated in favour of his son Philippe
- albertine — a female given name: derived from Albert.
- albertite — a black solid variety of bitumen that has a conchoidal fracture and occurs in veins in oil-bearing strata
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- alepidote — (of a fish) not having scales.
- alginates — Plural form of alginate.
- alienated — indifferent, unfriendly, or hostile
- alienates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alienate.
- alienator — A person who alienates.
- alienists — Plural form of alienist.
- alignment — An alignment is support for a particular group, especially in politics, or for a side in a quarrel or struggle.
- alimental — Supplying food; nourishing.