9-letter words containing u, a, r, t
- autolatry — the worship of oneself
- 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
- autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- autotruck — a motor truck.
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- balusters — Plural form of baluster.
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- banqueter — A guest at a banquet.
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barquette — a boat-shaped pastry shell
- batardeau — A cofferdam.
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- board out — If someone in your care is boarded out, they are sent to stay with someone else.
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
- breathful — full of breath; living
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- brutality — Brutality is cruel and violent treatment or behaviour. A brutality is an instance of cruel and violent treatment or behaviour.
- brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
- bucentaur — the state barge of Venice from which the doge and other officials dropped a ring into the sea on Ascension Day to symbolize the ceremonial marriage of the state with the Adriatic
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- burn rate — The burn rate of a startup company is a measure of how fast it uses up its capital before becoming profitable.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- caliatour — a tropical dyewood, possibly red sandalwood
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter