9-letter words containing e, t, i
- acroteria — acroters
- actinides — Plural form of actinide.
- actioners — Plural form of actioner.
- activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
- activater — Alternative spelling of activator.
- activates — to make active; cause to function or act.
- actualise — to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.
- actualité — humorous word for truth
- actualize — to make actual or real
- actuaries — Plural form of actuary.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- additives — Plural form of additive.
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- ademption — the failure of a specific legacy, as by a testator disposing of the subject matter in his lifetime
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- admittees — a person who has been or is going to be admitted: Every admittee must present a ticket at the door.
- admixture — Admixture means the same as mixture.
- ado-ekiti — a town in SE Nigeria.
- adultlike — having attained full size and strength; grown up; mature: an adult person, animal, or plant.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- advective — relating to advection
- adventism — the belief that the Second Coming of Christ will occur soon
- adventist — a member of any of the Christian groups, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists that hold that the Second Coming of Christ is imminent
- adventive — (of a species) introduced to a new area and not yet established there; exotic
- adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
- adverting — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advertise — If someone or something advertises a particular quality, they show it in their appearance or behaviour.
- advertize — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- aegisthus — a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
- aerialist — a trapeze artist or tightrope walker
- aeriality — the quality of being aerial; insubstantiality
- aerobatic — (used with a plural verb) stunts performed in flight by an airplane, glider, or the like.
- aerobiont — an organism that requires oxygen to survive
- aerolites — Plural form of aerolite.
- aerotaxis — the movement of organisms towards or away from oxygen caused by changes in oxygen concentration
- aerotrain — a high-speed train driven by a fan jet engine
- aesthesia — the normal ability to experience sensation, perception, or sensitivity
- aesthesis — sensation; feeling.
- aesthetic — Aesthetic is used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things.
- aestivate — to pass the summer
- aethalium — a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.
- aetheling — atheling.
- aetiology — the philosophy or study of causation
- affecting — If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- affective — relating to affects