9-letter words containing t, a, r, e
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- auteurism — a critical film theory according to which the primary creator of a film is the director, all of whose works are said to reflect to a certain degree the characteristics of a personal style
- auteurist — a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- 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.
- 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
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoflare — a computer-operated, automatic landing system in an aircraft
- automaker — An automaker is a company that manufactures cars.
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autoroute — a French motorway
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- averments — Plural form of averment.
- avertable — Preventable.
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- avertible — Capable of being averted; preventable.
- aviatrice — a woman who is a pilot; aviator.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- awestrike — to inspire great awe in
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
- azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- b battery — the power source for the plate and screen-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- back rest — a support for the back of something
- backbiter — to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
- backrests — Plural form of backrest.
- backtrace — (computing) A stack trace.
- backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- bacterial — Bacterial is used to describe things that relate to or are caused by bacteria.
- bacterias — (US) Plural form of bacteria.
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- bacterize — to subject to bacterial action
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- ballaster — someone who supplies ballast for a ship; someone who ballasts
- ballister — (obsolete) A crossbow.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- baltimore — a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)