9-letter words containing t
- attractor — a person or thing that attracts.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- attrahent — attracting or drawing in
- attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
- attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
- attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
- attritive — Causing attrition.
- attritted — to wear down (an opposing military force) by numerical superiority in troops or firepower.
- attuition — a way of mentally perceiving which is between human perception and animal sensation
- attuitive — characterized by attuition
- atypicals — Plural form of atypical.
- au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
- aubrietia — any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- auctorial — of or relating to an author
- audiotape — Audiotape is magnetic tape which is used to record sound.
- auditable — able to be audited
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- auditoria — the space set apart for the audience in a theater, school, or other public building.
- auditress — a female auditor
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- augmented — (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- auntie-ji — a respectful name and form of address given to a woman from the generation older than oneself
- auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austerely — severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
- austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- australia — a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
- austrasia — the eastern region of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks that had its capital at Metz and lasted from 511 ad until 814 ad. It covered the area now comprising NE France, Belgium, and western Germany
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- autarkies — Plural form of autarky.
- autecious — autoecious
- 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.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.