9-letter words containing t
- at a push — with difficulty; only just
- at a time — You say at a time after an amount to say how many things or how much of something is involved in one action, place, or group.
- at a word — at once
- at an end — If something is at an end, it has finished and will not continue.
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- at bottom — You use at bottom to emphasize that you are stating what you think is the real nature of something or the real truth about a situation.
- at hazard — at risk; in danger
- at length — If someone does something at length, they do it after a long period of time.
- at livery — being kept in a livery stable
- at market — at the current price
- 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.
- at retail — directly to the consumer at retail prices
- at source — at the point of origin
- ata point — (unit, text) (Or "Anglo-Saxon point") One of the two most common variants of the point, equal to 0.3514598 mm, or 0.0138366 inch, or 1/72.272 inch. The ATA point is used on the island of the United Kingdom and on the American continent.
- atabalipa — Atahualpa.
- atacamite — a mineral, green in colour, containing copper and present in Australia, Chile, and Cornwall
- atahualpa — ?1500–33, the last Inca emperor of Peru (1525–33), who was put to death by the Spanish under Pizarro
- ataractic — able to calm or tranquillize
- atavistic — Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
- ateliosis — a form of infantilism caused by pituitary malfunction, characterized by a childish face and voice and associated physical underdevelopment, but not affecting intelligence.
- atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
- athabasca — river rising in the Rocky Mountains of SW Alberta, Canada, and flowing northeast into Lake Athabasca: 765 mi (1,231 km)
- athabaska — a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km (765 miles)
- athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athelstan — ?895–939 ad, king of Wessex and Mercia (924–939 ad), who extended his kingdom to include most of England
- athematic — not based on themes
- athenaeum — an institution for the promotion of learning
- athenaeus — late 2nd century a.d, Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- atheology — a resistance or aversion to theology
- atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athetesis — the dismissal of a text as not genuine
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athetosis — a condition characterized by uncontrolled rhythmic writhing movement, esp of fingers, hands, head, and tongue, caused by cerebral lesion
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atjehnese — a member of an indigenous Muslim people of northernmost Sumatra.
- atlantean — of, relating to, or like Atlas; extremely strong
- atm forum — (networking, body) An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum <[email protected]>.
- atmolysis — a method of separating gases that depends on their differential rates of diffusion through a porous substance
- atmometer — an instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere
- atmometry — the science of measuring the rate at which water evaporates.
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- atom bomb — atomic bomb
- atom trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- atom-bomb — to bomb (a target) with an atomic bomb.