9-letter words containing i, s, t
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athetesis — the dismissal of a text as not genuine
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athetosis — a condition characterized by uncontrolled rhythmic writhing movement, esp of fingers, hands, head, and tongue, caused by cerebral lesion
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- atmolysis — a method of separating gases that depends on their differential rates of diffusion through a porous substance
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
- atonalism — atonality.
- atonalist — a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
- atrahasis — a legendary Akkadian sage who built a boat in which he and his family, servants, and chattels escaped the Deluge.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attalus i — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attitudes — Plural form of attitude.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- atypicals — Plural form of atypical.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- auditress — a female auditor
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- 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
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- australia — a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
- austrasia — the eastern region of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks that had its capital at Metz and lasted from 511 ad until 814 ad. It covered the area now comprising NE France, Belgium, and western Germany
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- autecious — autoecious
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autistics — Plural form of autistic.
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- autolysis — the destruction of cells and tissues of an organism by enzymes produced by the cells themselves
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies