9-letter words that end in t
- affirmant — a person who affirms.
- affirmest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of affirm.
- affixment — the act of attaching or affixing
- affreight — to charter (a ship) as a freight carrier.
- afterbeat — a secondary, weaker half of a musical beat.
- aftercast — a casting made from a mold that was itself made from an original casting.
- afterheat — the heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements
- aftermost — closer or closest to the rear or (in a vessel) the stern; last
- afterpart — A rear part.
- age limit — An age limit is the oldest or youngest age at which you are allowed under particular regulations to do something.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agistment — the act of agisting
- agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
- agterskot — the final payment to a farmer for crops
- aids test — a blood test that detects whether the blood sample contains antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and thus whether a person has or is likely to develop AIDS
- air alert — the condition in which combat aircraft are airborne and ready for an operation
- air blast — a jet of air produced mechanically.
- air fleet — a group of military aircraft, usually under one commander.
- air frost — the deposition of ice condensed from water vapour in the atmosphere on the surface when the air temperature is below 0°C
- air hoist — a pneumatic hoist.
- air plant — an epiphyte, esp an orchid of the large Old World tropical genus Aerides, grown for its white scented flowers spotted with red, purple, or rose, or a bromeliad, esp of the genus Tillandsia
- 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 scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air shaft — a shaft for ventilation, esp in a mine or tunnel
- air twist — a serpentine motif within the stem of a goblet, produced by extending and twisting an air bubble during glass blowing.
- al-fustat — a city in N Egypt, near the modern city of Cairo, founded in the 7th century a.d.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- 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)
- aleph-bet — the Hebrew alphabet
- alignment — An alignment is support for a particular group, especially in politics, or for a side in a quarrel or struggle.
- alinement — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- all right — If you say that someone or something is all right, you mean that you find them satisfactory or acceptable.
- all-night — open, available or operating throughout the night
- all-right — safe; sound: Are you all right?
- allayment — an abatement, moderation or alleviation
- allegiant — a person who displays constancy, duty, and faithfulness, esp to a ruling body
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- allergist — An allergist is a doctor who specializes in treating people with allergies.
- alleviant — a medical treatment that reduces pain but does not cure the underlying problem
- alley cat — An alley cat is a cat that lives in the streets of a town, is rather fierce, and is usually not owned by anyone.
- allicient — That attracts; attracting.
- allograft — a tissue graft from a donor genetically unrelated to the recipient
- allotment — In Britain, an allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.
- 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.
- 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
- alternant — alternating
- amassment — the act of amassing