9-letter words containing t, o, r, e
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attleboro — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- attolaser — a high-power laser capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- 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
- 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.
- bacterio- — indicating bacteria or an action or condition relating to or characteristic of bacteria
- bacteroid — resembling a bacterium
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- baltimore — a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- bare-root — of or relating to a tree or shrub prepared for transplanting by having all or most of the soil removed from about its roots.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barometer — A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure and shows when the weather is changing.
- barometre — (nonstandard) Alternative form of barometer.
- barometry — the process of measuring atmospheric pressure.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- be mother — to pour the tea
- beatboxer — (music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- beetroots — Plural form of beetroot.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- berthelot — Pierre Eugène Marselin [marsuh-lan] /mærsəˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1827–1907, French chemist.