9-letter words containing o, u, t
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autoplast — autograft.
- autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
- 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
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autoroute — a French motorway
- 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.
- autotelic — having a purpose in and justifying itself
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- autotoxin — any poison or toxin formed in the organism upon which it acts
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- autotruck — a motor truck.
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- backcourt — In sports such tennis and badminton, the backcourt is the section of each side of the court that is furthest from the net. In basketball, the backcourt is the rear part of the court, where the defense plays. You can also use backcourt to refer to the members of a team who play mainly in this part of the court.
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- befortune — to happen, befall, come about
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioturbed — stirred by organisms
- black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
- bland out — to become bland
- blank out — If you blank out a particular feeling or thought, you do not allow yourself to experience that feeling or to have that thought.
- blast out — If music or noise is blasting out, loud music or noise is being produced.
- bleed out — to die as a result of losing blood through an unattended wound
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- block out — If someone blocks out a thought, they try not to think about it.