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9-letter words containing t, o, a, d

  • astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
  • astrodome — a transparent dome on the top of an aircraft, through which observations can be made, esp of the stars
  • asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
  • at a word — at once
  • 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.
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
  • audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
  • auditions — Plural form of audition.
  • auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
  • auto idle — (processor)   A facility provided by some Intel clock doubled microprocessors where the internal clock can be slowed to the external clock rate while the processor is waiting for data from memory, returning to full speed as soon as the data arrives. See also System Management Mode.
  • auto-dial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
  • autocidal — (of insect pest control) effected by the introduction of sterile or genetically altered individuals into the wild population
  • 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.
  • autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
  • autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
  • autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
  • automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
  • automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • aydelotte — Frank, 1880–1956, U.S. educator.
  • bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
  • bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
  • 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.
  • badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
  • badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
  • ballotade — a movement similar to a croupade except that the horse draws in its hind legs so that the iron of the shoes is visible.
  • bandicoot — any agile terrestrial marsupial of the family Peramelidae of Australia and New Guinea. They have a long pointed muzzle and a long tail and feed mainly on small invertebrates
  • bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
  • bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
  • bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
  • bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
  • bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
  • beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
  • beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
  • beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
  • bell toad — a frog, Ascaphus truei, of the northwestern U.S. and adjacent Canada, the male of which has its cloaca modified into a taillike copulatory organ.
  • bland out — to become bland
  • bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
  • bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
  • board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
  • boat deck — the deck of a ship on which the lifeboats are kept
  • boat ride — a ride in a boat
  • bobtailed — having the tail cut short
  • body part — a part of a human body
  • bookstand — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
  • bradenton — a city in W Florida.
  • brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
  • breadroot — a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
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