9-letter words containing l, e, a, t
- allergist — An allergist is a doctor who specializes in treating people with allergies.
- allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
- alleviant — a medical treatment that reduces pain but does not cure the underlying problem
- alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
- alley cat — An alley cat is a cat that lives in the streets of a town, is rather fierce, and is usually not owned by anyone.
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- alligated — to attach; bind.
- allineate — To align.
- allocated — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- allocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allocate.
- allometry — the study of the growth of part of an organism in relation to the growth of the entire organism
- allostery — the condition of a protein (such as an enzyme) in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule at a site other than the chemically active one
- allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- allotrope — any of two or more physical forms in which an element can exist
- allottees — Plural form of allottee.
- allottery — an allotment or allocation
- almandite — almandine.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- altarwise — in the position of an altar
- altdorfer — Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.
- altimetry — the science of measuring altitudes, as with an altimeter
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
- aluminate — a salt of the ortho or meta acid forms of aluminium hydroxide containing the ions AlO2– or AlO33–
- aluminite — a mineral, hydrous aluminum sulfate, Al 2 (SO 4)(OH) 4 ⋅7H 2 O, occurring in white, chalky masses.
- alveolate — having many alveoli
- amalekite — a member of a nomadic tribe descended from Esau (Genesis 36:12), dwelling in the desert between Sinai and Canaan and hostile to the Israelites: they were defeated by Saul and destroyed by David (I Samuel 15–30)
- amalthaea — the goat that nurses Zeus (Jupiter): one of its horns is called the cornucopia
- amberlite — various insoluble cross-linked polymers used in water-treatment processes and in pharmacy
- ambiently — In an ambient way.
- ambulante — a portable tea table, used in 18th-century France.
- ambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of ambulate.
- ambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambulate.
- ambulette — a motor vehicle designed for transporting disabled people
- ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- ampullate — Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
- anabolite — a product of anabolism
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.
- analeptic — (of a drug, etc) stimulating the central nervous system