9-letter words containing o, n, t
- arternoon — Eye dialect of afternoon.
- arylation — to introduce one or more aryl groups into (a compound).
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- assay ton — a unit of weight used in assaying ore, equivalent to 29.167 grams.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- assorting — Present participle of assort.
- astonying — Present participle of astony.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- astronaut — An astronaut is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.
- astronomy — Astronomy is the scientific study of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- at random — If you choose people or things at random, you do not use any particular method, so they all have an equal chance of being chosen.
- ata point — (unit, text) (Or "Anglo-Saxon point") One of the two most common variants of the point, equal to 0.3514598 mm, or 0.0138366 inch, or 1/72.272 inch. The ATA point is used on the island of the United Kingdom and on the American continent.
- atomizing — Present participle of atomize.
- atonalism — atonality.
- atonalist — a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
- atonality — absence of or disregard for an established musical key in a composition
- atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- atonicity — lack of tone; atony.
- atoningly — in an expiating manner
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- attollent — (of muscle action) lifting up or raising
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
- attuition — a way of mentally perceiving which is between human perception and animal sensation
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- auto-tune — (sometimes lowercase) to alter (recorded audio) to correct pitch and timing or create a melody.
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- automaton — If you say that someone is an automaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- avocating — Present participle of avocate.
- avocation — Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
- avolition — Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.