9-letter words containing e, t
- aesthesia — the normal ability to experience sensation, perception, or sensitivity
- aesthesis — sensation; feeling.
- aesthetes — Plural form of aesthete.
- 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.
- aethereal — ethereal
- aetiology — the philosophy or study of causation
- affatuate — (obsolete) To infatuate.
- affecters — to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation.
- 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
- afferents — Plural form of afferent.
- 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
- affluents — Plural form of affluent.
- affordeth — Archaic third-person singular form of afford.
- afforests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of afforest.
- 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
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- aforetime — formerly
- after all — You use after all when introducing a statement which supports or helps explain something you have just said.
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- after-tax — denoting earnings, profit, or income left when tax has been paid
- afterbeat — a secondary, weaker half of a musical beat.
- afterbody — any discarded part that continues to trail a satellite, rocket, etc, in orbit
- aftercare — Aftercare is the nursing and care of people who have been treated in hospital, and who are now recovering.
- aftercast — a casting made from a mold that was itself made from an original casting.
- afterclap — an unexpected, usually unwanted, repercussion of or sequel to an affair which had been thought to be closed
- afterdamp — a poisonous mixture of gases containing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen formed after the explosion of firedamp in coal mines
- afterdeck — the unprotected deck behind the bridge of a ship
- aftergame — a game following a previous game, often intended to reverse the fortunes of that previous game
- afterglow — The afterglow is the glow that remains after a light has gone, for example after the sun has gone down.
- afterheat — the heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements
- 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.
- afterload — (physiology) The load on a working muscle from a constant opposing force.
- aftermath — The aftermath of an important event, especially a harmful one, is the situation that results from it.
- aftermost — closer or closest to the rear or (in a vessel) the stern; last