9-letter words containing o, n, a, t
- adenotomy — (anatomy) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- admonitor — a person who admonishes
- adoptions — Plural form of adoption.
- adorating — Present participle of adorate.
- adoration — Adoration is a feeling of great admiration and love for someone or something.
- adorement — (obsolete) The act of adoring; adoration.
- adornment — An adornment is something that is used to make a person or thing more beautiful.
- adsorbant — Adsorbent.
- adsorbent — capable of adsorption
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- aerobiont — an organism that requires oxygen to survive
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aerotrain — a high-speed train driven by a fan jet engine
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- afflation — the inspiration or influence of someone or something
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- aflatoxin — a toxin produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus growing on peanuts, maize, etc, causing liver disease (esp cancer) in man
- afternoon — The afternoon is the part of each day which begins at lunchtime and ends at about six o'clock.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agitation — If someone is in a state of agitation, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- agnolotti — a dish of small pasta shaped like half moons and usually filled with tortellini stuffing: boiled and served in broth or with a sauce.
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
- albinotic — of or relating to albinism.
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- alienator — A person who alienates.
- allantoic — of or in the allantois
- allantoid — relating to or resembling the allantois
- allantoin — a substance derived from the secretions of snails and contained in some plants, used in skin care products and valued for its soothing properties
- allantois — a membranous sac growing out of the ventral surface of the hind gut of embryonic reptiles, birds, and mammals. It combines with the chorion to form the mammalian placenta
- allentown — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River. Pop: 105 958 (2003 est)
- allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- allotting — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- 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.
- altiplano — a plateau of the Andes, covering two thirds of Bolivia and extending into S Peru: contains Lake Titicaca. Height: 3000 m (10 000 ft) to 3900 m (13 000 ft)
- amatorian — amatorial
- amatoxins — Plural form of amatoxin.
- amazonite — a green variety of microcline used as a gemstone. Formula: KAlSi3O8
- ambitions — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.