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9-letter words containing o, r, a

  • at a word — at once
  • 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.
  • at source — at the point of origin
  • atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
  • atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
  • atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
  • athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
  • atm forum — (networking, body)   An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum <[email protected]>.
  • atmometer — an instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere
  • atmometry — the science of measuring the rate at which water evaporates.
  • atom trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
  • atomizers — Plural form of atomizer.
  • atriotomy — (medicine) The surgical opening of an atrium.
  • atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • 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.
  • attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
  • attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
  • attornies — Plural form of attorny.
  • attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
  • attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
  • au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
  • au revoir — goodbye
  • auctorial — of or relating to an author
  • audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
  • auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
  • augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
  • auranofin — a gold-containing compound, C 20 H 34 AuO 9 PS, used orally in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
  • aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
  • authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
  • authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
  • authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
  • 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
  • authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
  • authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
  • 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.
  • autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
  • autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
  • autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
  • autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
  • autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
  • autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
  • autoflare — a computer-operated, automatic landing system in an aircraft
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