9-letter words containing t, a, i, u
- naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- naupathia — (medicine) seasickness.
- nautiloid — a mollusk of the subclass Nautiloidea, including nautiluses and many fossil species that were abundant in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
- neptunian — pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
- neuration — venation, as of an insect's wings.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- nougatine — a chocolate-coated nougat.
- numantian — of or relating to Numantia or its inhabitants
- nunnation — the doubling, in writing, of the final vowel symbol to indicate the addition, in speech, of the indefinite suffix n to certain nouns.
- nuristani — Kafir (def 1).
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- orbituary — Orbital.
- ortanique — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a tangerine, developed in Jamaica in the 1920s.
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outsailed — Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- paedeutic — of or relating to the study of teaching
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing
- paint out — to cover up with or as with a coat of paint
- pant suit — women's shirt and trousers
- paricutin — a volcano in W central Mexico: formed by an eruption 1943–52. 8200 feet (2500 meters).
- partitura — a musical score for several parts
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- paupiette — bird (def 6).
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pituitary — pituitary gland.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- plurality — the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (distinguished from majority).
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.