9-letter words containing a, l, t
- alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
- alterable — capable of being altered.
- alterably — In an alterable manner.
- altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
- alternant — alternating
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
- altigraph — an instrument that measures altitude and records the measurements graphically
- altimeter — An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground.
- altimetre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of altimeter.
- altimetry — the science of measuring altitudes, as with an altimeter
- altiplano — a plateau of the Andes, covering two thirds of Bolivia and extending into S Peru: contains Lake Titicaca. Height: 3000 m (10 000 ft) to 3900 m (13 000 ft)
- altissimo — (of music) very high in pitch
- altitudes — Plural form of altitude.
- alto clef — the clef that establishes middle C as being on the third line of the staff
- altricial — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) naked, blind, and dependent on the parents for food
- altruists — Plural form of altruist.
- aluminate — a salt of the ortho or meta acid forms of aluminium hydroxide containing the ions AlO2– or AlO33–
- aluminite — a mineral, hydrous aluminum sulfate, Al 2 (SO 4)(OH) 4 ⋅7H 2 O, occurring in white, chalky masses.
- alumroots — Plural form of alumroot.
- alveolate — having many alveoli
- amalekite — a member of a nomadic tribe descended from Esau (Genesis 36:12), dwelling in the desert between Sinai and Canaan and hostile to the Israelites: they were defeated by Saul and destroyed by David (I Samuel 15–30)
- amalthaea — the goat that nurses Zeus (Jupiter): one of its horns is called the cornucopia
- amatorial — of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love: amatory poems; an amatory look.
- amberlite — various insoluble cross-linked polymers used in water-treatment processes and in pharmacy
- ambiently — In an ambient way.
- ambulante — a portable tea table, used in 18th-century France.
- ambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of ambulate.
- ambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambulate.
- ambulator — a person who walks
- ambulette — a motor vehicle designed for transporting disabled people
- amoralist — a person who adheres to the doctrine of amoralism
- amorality — not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
- ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
- amplitude — In physics, the amplitude of a sound wave or electrical signal is its strength.
- ampullate — Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.
- anabolite — a product of anabolism
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.
- anaclitic — of or relating to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on others or another
- anaglypta — a type of thick embossed wallpaper
- analeptic — (of a drug, etc) stimulating the central nervous system
- analgetic — a painkilling drug
- analities — Plural form of anality.
- analogist — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
- analytics — the part of logic having to do with analyzing
- anaplasty — Surgery. reconstruction or restoration, especially by plastic surgery, of a lost or injured part.
- anatolian — of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- anciently — in ancient times
- ancipital — flattened and having two edges