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9-letter words containing u, s, t, a

  • autofocus — a device that focuses a lens, camera, etc. automatically
  • autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
  • autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
  • autolycus — a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 38 km in diameter and 3000 m deep
  • autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
  • autolyses — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
  • autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
  • autolysis — the destruction of cells and tissues of an organism by enzymes produced by the cells themselves
  • automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
  • autopista — a Spanish motorway
  • autoplast — autograft.
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
  • autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
  • autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
  • autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
  • autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
  • autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • autostart — (transitive, intransitive, computing) To start automatically.
  • awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
  • badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
  • baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
  • balusters — Plural form of baluster.
  • bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
  • bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
  • bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
  • base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
  • basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
  • bass tuba — a tuba pitched in F or E-flat
  • bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
  • bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
  • battlebus — the coach that transports politicians and their advisers round the country during an election campaign
  • beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
  • bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
  • bisulcate — marked by two grooves
  • bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
  • blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
  • bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
  • brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
  • bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
  • buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
  • 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
  • bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
  • bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
  • 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
  • busticate — to break
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