7-letter words containing t, a, i
- adiabat — a line on a thermodynamic chart relating the pressure and temperature of a substance undergoing an adiabatic change.
- adipate — a salt or ester of adipic acid.
- adjoint — a generalization in category theory of this notion
- advaita — one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Compare dvaita (def 2).
- aeriate — Archaic form of aerate.
- aeriest — ethereal; aerial.
- aetatis — Of or at the age of.
- aetolia — a mountainous region forming (with the region of Acarnania) a department of W central Greece, north of the Gulf of Patras: a powerful federal state in the 3rd century bc. Chief city: Missolonghi. Pop (with Acarnania): 219 092 (2001). Area: 5461 sq km (2108 sq miles)
- affiant — a person who makes an affidavit
- afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- against — If one thing is leaning or pressing against another, it is touching it.
- agalite — a fibrous variety of talc.
- agarita — a tall shrub, Mahonia trifoliolata, of the barberry family, of southwestern North America, having stiff, oblong leaflets with spiny teeth and a red fruit used in jelly.
- agatize — to turn into agate
- agatoid — resembling agate
- agentic — Social cognition theory perspective in which people are producers as well as products of social systems.
- agility — the power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises demanding agility.
- agister — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agistor — a person who grazes cattle for money
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- agitato — (to be performed) in an agitated manner
- agitpop — the use of pop music to promote political propaganda
- agnatic — a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- agonist — any muscle that is opposed in action by another muscle
- agoutis — Plural form of agouti.
- aheight — at a significant height
- ailette — a shoulder component of a knight's armour, normally made of leather or parchment and displaying the bearer's coat of arms
- ailment — An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious.
- aintree — a suburb of Liverpool, in Merseyside: site of the racecourse over which the Grand National steeplechase has been run since 1839
- air out — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- air tee — a large, T -shaped weather vane on or near an airfield.
- airboat — a light, flat-bottomed boat driven by a propeller revolving in the air
- aircast — a pneumatic brace used to support an injured body part
- airdate — the scheduled date for the broadcast of a television or radio programme
- airiest — Superlative form of airy.
- airlift — An airlift is an operation to move people, troops, or goods by air, especially in a war or when land routes are closed.
- airport — An airport is a place where aircraft land and take off, which has buildings and facilities for passengers.
- airpost — the system of delivering mail by air; airmail
- airshot — aircheck
- airsoft — A modern combat sport in which participants eliminate their opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun.
- airstop — a landing place for helicopters
- airthed — a direction.
- airtime — the time allocated to a particular programme, item, topic, or type of material on radio or television
- airting — a direction.
- aitches — Plural form of aitch.
- aitolia — Modern Greek name of Aetolia.
- akihito — born 1933, Emperor of Japan from 1989
- akinete — (in certain algae) a nonmotile, asexual spore formed within a cell, the wall of which is fused to that of the parent cell.
- akvavit — aquavit
- alantin — (chemistry, obsolete) inulin.