9-letter words containing et
- analgetic — a painkilling drug
- anaxarete — a princess turned to stone for scorning the love of a commoner.
- anchoveta — a small anchovy, Cetengraulis mysticetus, of the American Pacific, used as bait by tuna fishermen
- answereth — Archaic third-person singular form of answer.
- antimeter — (obsolete) A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.
- anxieties — Plural form of anxiety.
- apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- apetalous — (of flowering plants) having no petals
- apheretic — Standard spelling of aphaeretic.
- aphetized — (linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
- aplanetic — (esp of some algal and fungal spores) nonmotile or lacking a motile stage
- appetence — a natural craving or desire
- appetency — a strong desire; craving; appetite
- appetible — desirable or capable of arousing desire
- appetiser — Alternative spelling of appetizer.
- appetites — Plural form of appetite.
- appetized — Simple past tense and past participle of appetize.
- appetizer — An appetizer is the first course of a meal. It consists of a small amount of food.
- appletalk — (networking, protocol) A proprietary local area network protocol developed by Apple Computer, Inc. for communication between Apple products (e.g. Macintosh) and other computers. This protocol is independent of the network layer on which it runs. Current implementations exist for Localtalk, a 235 kilobyte per second local area network and Ethertalk, a 10 megabyte per second local area network.
- appletini — a cocktail consisting of vodka and apple juice with apple cider, apple brandy, or apple liqueur, and sometimes vermouth
- arboretum — An arboretum is a specially designed garden of different types of trees.
- archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
- arethusas — Plural form of arethusa.
- arteether — Artemotil.
- asafetida — a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease
- ascetical — a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- ashtoreth — an ancient Semitic fertility goddess, identified with Astarte and Ishtar
- assetless — having no assets or property that can be used to pay off debts
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- asymmetry — Asymmetry is the appearance that something has when its two sides or halves are different in shape, size, or style.
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- at market — at the current price
- at retail — directly to the consumer at retail prices
- athetesis — the dismissal of a text as not genuine
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athetosis — a condition characterized by uncontrolled rhythmic writhing movement, esp of fingers, hands, head, and tongue, caused by cerebral lesion
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- atmometer — an instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation of water into the atmosphere
- atmometry — the science of measuring the rate at which water evaporates.
- attendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of attend.
- aubrietia — any trailing purple-flowered plant of the genus Aubrieta, native to European mountains but widely planted in rock gardens: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- bannerets — Plural form of banneret.
- banqueted — Simple past tense and past participle of banquet.