9-letter words containing t, h
- air hoist — a pneumatic hoist.
- air right — a right of way in the air space above a property owner's land and the immovable property on it, subject to the public right of air navigation above the property at a legally prescribed altitude.
- air shaft — a shaft for ventilation, esp in a mine or tunnel
- air-thing — a direction.
- airworthy — If an aircraft is airworthy, it is safe to fly.
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akathisia — the inability to sit still because of uncontrollable movement caused by reaction to drugs
- akathisic — Relating to, or exhibiting, akathisia.
- akhenaten — original name Amenhotep IV. died ?1358 bc, king of Egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from Thebes to Tell El Amarna and introduced the cult of Aten
- akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
- akhmatova — Anna (ˈɑnə ) ; änˈə) (pseud. of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko) 1889-1966; Russ. poet
- akoluthos — the title of a commander of a regiment in the Byzantine Varangian Guard
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- alchymist — Alternative spelling of alchemist.
- aldershot — a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)
- alecithal — (of an ovum) having little or no yolk
- alembroth — a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury, formerly believed to be a universal solvent
- aleph-bet — the Hebrew alphabet
- algorithm — An algorithm is a series of mathematical steps, especially in a computer program, which will give you the answer to a particular kind of problem or question.
- alighting — to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc.
- aliphatic — (of an organic compound) not aromatic, esp having an open chain structure, such as alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
- all right — If you say that someone or something is all right, you mean that you find them satisfactory or acceptable.
- all there — having his or her wits about him or her; of normal intelligence
- all-night — open, available or operating throughout the night
- all-right — safe; sound: Are you all right?
- allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
- allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
- allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- aloha net — (networking) (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
- alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- alt-right — (in the US) a political movement whose supporters hold extreme right-wing views and reject mainstream politics
- 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
- amalthaea — the goat that nurses Zeus (Jupiter): one of its horns is called the cornucopia
- amaranths — Plural form of amaranth.
- amenhotep — name of four kings of Egypt who ruled during the 16th, 15th, & 14th cent. b.c.
- amethysts — Plural form of amethyst.
- amianthus — any of the fine silky varieties of asbestos
- amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
- ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
- amthamine — A histamine agonist selective for the H2 subtype.
- ananthous — (of higher plants) having no flowers
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anarthria — loss of the ability to speak coherently
- anarthric — relating to anarthria
- anathemas — Plural form of anathema.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit