9-letter words containing u, r, a, t
- art-house — An art-house film is a film that is intended to be a serious artistic work rather than a piece of popular entertainment.
- arthurian — of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
- articular — of or relating to joints or to the structural components in a joint
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- assaulter — a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
- assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
- astronaut — An astronaut is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.
- astroturf — Astroturf is a type of artificial fiber that is used instead of grass on some sports fields.
- at source — at the point of origin
- 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]>.
- atrocious — If you describe something as atrocious, you are emphasizing that its quality is very bad.
- attribute — If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation.
- 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)
- auctorial — of or relating to an author
- 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.
- augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- 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.
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- 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.
- autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
- autocrats — Plural form of autocrat.
- 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
- autocross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a half-mile circuit of rough grass
- autodrome — a track or circuit for racing cars, go-karts, etc
- autoflare — a computer-operated, automatic landing system in an aircraft
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autograft — a tissue graft obtained from one part of a patient's body for use on another part
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.