9-letter words that end in t
- amazement — Amazement is the feeling you have when something surprises you very much.
- amendment — An amendment is a section that is added to a law or rule in order to change it.
- ames test — a method of preliminary screening for carcinogens, based on their ability to cause mutations in bacteria
- amoralist — a person who adheres to the doctrine of amoralism
- amusement — Amusement is the feeling that you have when you think that something is funny or amusing.
- analogist — a person who employs or argues from analogy.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- anatomist — An anatomist is an expert in anatomy.
- anglicist — an expert in or student of English literature or language
- aniconist — a believer or follower of aniconism
- animalist — a person driven by animal appetites; sensualist.
- annectent — linking or connecting
- annexment — a thing that is adjoined or added on
- annoyment — (proscribed) Annoyance.
- annuitant — a person in receipt of or entitled to an annuity
- annulment — The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
- anovulant — any drug preventing ovulation
- ant-pipit — gnateater.
- ante-post — In gambling, ante-post bets are placed before the day of a particular race or competition.
- antecourt — a forecourt.
- antidraft — opposed to compulsory military service or conscription
- antigraft — opposed to or designed to reduce corruption
- antiplant — Designed to kill plants; herbicidal.
- antispast — a group of four syllables, two short and two long, in a metric foot
- antitheft — (of a device, campaign, system, etc) designed to prevent theft
- antitrust — In the United States, antitrust laws are intended to stop large firms taking over their competitors, fixing prices with their competitors, or interfering with free competition in any way.
- apartment — An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building.
- apatheist — (religion) A person who may accept the existence of a god, but who does not care about that god's existence.
- apologist — An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
- appalment — The state of being appalled or alarmed.
- appealant — Obsolete form of appellant.
- appellant — An appellant is someone who is appealing against a court's decision after they have been judged guilty of a crime.
- appendant — attached, affixed, or added
- appendent — attached or suspended; annexed.
- applecart — a cart or barrow from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
- applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.
- apriorist — a person who believes in apriorism
- arbuthnot — John. 1667–1735, Scottish physician and satirist: author of The History of John Bull (1712) and, with others, of the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741)
- arc light — Arc lights are a type of very bright electric light.
- archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
- architect — An architect is a person who designs buildings.
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
- archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
- argue out — If two or more people argue something out, they discuss it or thoroughly in order to reach a conclusion or decision.
- arkwright — Sir Richard. 1732–92, English cotton manufacturer: inventor of the spinning frame (1769) which produced cotton thread strong enough to be used as a warp
- arm-twist — to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.
- army brat — a daughter or son of a career U.S. Army officer or enlisted person, esp. one raised in military communities
- army list — an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the army and reserve officers liable for recall
- arrantest — Superlative form of arrant.
- arrayment — the act of arraying