9-letter words containing y, e, t
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- ice yacht — a sailing craft having a cross-shaped frame with a cockpit and runners for travelling over ice
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- immensity — vastness; enormous extent: the immensity of the Roman empire.
- immodesty — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- in plenty — If there are things in plenty, those things exist or happen in large amounts or numbers.
- in theory — in principle
- indemnity — protection or security against damage or loss.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- inebriety — drunkenness; intoxication.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- insatiety — the state of being insatiate; insatiability
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- integrity — adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
- intensely — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- intensity — the quality or condition of being intense.
- intercity — a large or important town.
- internity — State of being within; interiority.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- iodimetry — iodometry.
- iodometry — a volumetric analytical procedure for determining iodine or materials that will liberate iodine or react with iodine.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- irreality — unreal.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- itinerary — a detailed plan for a journey, especially a list of places to visit; plan of travel.
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- jequirity — the rosary pea, Abrus precatorius, of the legume family.
- jestingly — Said, written or done in jest.
- jointedly — In a jointed way; with, or by means of, joints.
- k&r style — (programming) An ugly, obsolete, deprecated source code indent style that looks like this: if (cond) { } The basic indent is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; less commonly four. It is named after Kernighan & Ritchie because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. It is also called "kernel style" (because the Unix kernel was written in it) or Egyptian brackets. This style was popular when programmers worked on small displays, or when printing code on paper, becuase it saves vertical space. It should be avoided because the opening brace is easy to miss at the end of a long condition in an "if" or "while" statement and it makes it hard to pair up braces.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- katalyses — catalysis.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- ketolysis — the breaking down of ketones.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- key fruit — a samara.
- key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.