9-letter words containing o, u, a
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autoplast — autograft.
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autoroute — a French motorway
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
- autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- autotelic — having a purpose in and justifying itself
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- autotruck — a motor truck.
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- azo group — the bivalent group −N=N− united to two aromatic groups, as in azobenzene.
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backround — Misspelling of background.
- 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.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barklouse — any of numerous insects of the order Psocoptera that live on the bark of trees and other plants.
- baroquely — in a baroque fashion
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.