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9-letter words containing o, d, a

  • audiology — the scientific study of hearing, often including the treatment of persons with hearing defects
  • audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
  • audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
  • auditions — Plural form of audition.
  • auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
  • aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
  • auto idle — (processor)   A facility provided by some Intel clock doubled microprocessors where the internal clock can be slowed to the external clock rate while the processor is waiting for data from memory, returning to full speed as soon as the data arrives. See also System Management Mode.
  • auto-dial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
  • autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
  • autocoder — (language)   Possibly the first primitive compiler. AUTOCODER was written by Alick E. Glennie in 1952. It translated symbolic statements into machine language for the Manchester Mark I computer. Autocoding later came to be a generic term for assembly language programming.
  • autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
  • autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
  • autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
  • automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
  • automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • avocadoes — Alternative spelling of avocados Plural form of avocado.
  • avoidable — Something that is avoidable can be prevented from happening.
  • avoidably — In a manner so as to be avoidable.
  • avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
  • aydelotte — Frank, 1880–1956, U.S. educator.
  • azoic dye — any of a group of brilliant, long-lasting azo dyes, formed on the fiber by coupling diazotized materials, used chiefly for printing on cotton.
  • baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
  • baby doll — a doll that looks like a baby
  • baby food — food, as vegetables, fruits, or meat, puréed or minced for easy ingestion by infants.
  • back door — a door at the rear or side of a building
  • back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
  • back road — A back road is a small country road with very little traffic.
  • back-door — secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
  • back-load — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
  • backboard — In basketball, the backboard is the flat board above each of the baskets.
  • backboned — With a strong spine.
  • backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
  • backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
  • backorder — Commerce. an order or part of an order waiting to be filled.
  • backroads — Plural form of backroad.
  • backround — Misspelling of background.
  • backsword — a person who uses the backsword
  • backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
  • backwords — Plural form of backword.
  • bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
  • bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
  • bad blood — If you say that there is bad blood between people, you mean that they have argued about something and dislike each other.
  • bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
  • badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
  • badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
  • badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
  • bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
  • bakeboard — a board on which bread dough is rolled and kneaded
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